Born Quote by Sidney Altman Download Open image “I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.” — Sidney Altman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Immigrants Immigration Montreal Poor Son
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
“American-born families flowing into Upper Canada first as political refugees from the American Revolution and later as economic migrants.” — Troy Bickham Copy Share Image
I was raised in Montreal, which is very multicultural, very liberal. Then I moved to New York. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
Yes, there's Montreal, but my real home, where my kids were born, where I became a citizen of this country, is New Jersey. — Martin Brodeur Copy Share Image
I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over to Canada… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
My mother was born in a refugee camp in Germany before the family immigrated to western Canada. They were able to get visas thanks… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants. — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was born there, and I am a twelfth Montrealer. — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy. — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
“All the people who do well work very hard. Nobody who has a record of achievement has been lazy about it.” — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments. — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. — Sidney Altman 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