#i was born

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#advanced age #after #age #apparently #birth

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. ↗

— Peter Tosh

#ask #black #born #church #i

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#actual #back #ball #born #changed

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else. ↗

— Joan Crawford

#born #camera #else #front #i

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#age #attacked #born #bought #december

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#born #eye #i #i was born #late

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#born #campus #i #i was born #life

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do. ↗

— Joan Jett

#advantage #believe #born #get #i

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#always #born #born to be #i #i always

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals. ↗

— Beatrice Lillie

#born #fourth #i #i was born #meals