#born

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#around #born #both #bristol #english

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#born #die #i #i was born #live

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#constitution #country #destiny #every #flag

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #away #born #cannot #communicate

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#chinese #citizens #constitution #dangerous #express

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#born #does #horse #make #stable

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. ↗

— Allen West

#atlanta #born #city #combat #commission

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together. ↗

— Joe Wright

#father #i #i was born #much #time

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time? ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#born #born-again #first #first time #make

Why was I born with such contemporaries? ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#contemporaries #i #such #why