Born Quotes

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.

After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

I don’t think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

Success only breeds a new goal

I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.