Born Quote by Mekhi Phifer Download Open image “I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.” — Mekhi Phifer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Born and raised Harlem Raised
I credit a lot of my success to being from Harlem, growing up there. — Mohamed Bamba Copy Share Image
I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time. — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem. — John Catsimatidis Copy Share Image
I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
You know, I grew up Black in America, I grew up close to Spanish Harlem where we ain't have much money, but we was… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like,… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
In the early '80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren't any rap… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
A lot of times you'll hear horror stories about actors being incredibly selfish and only wanting themselves to shine, but for me, it's not… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
I always try to pick and choose projects that will be impactful to someone. From films like 'Clockers' to playing a doctor on 'ER'… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff. — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with what I do, but it just seems like yesterday that I just started, at 19, and it's been like a… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
I'm a big road trip guy. I'm the guy who gets in the RV and drives across country. And when you do that, you… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
