Born Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

When I became conscious of being a person, when I was very small, I knew that I was from Indiana, but I had never…

— John Darnielle

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

— Jim Harrison

I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but…

— Natalia Kills

I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes…

— Will Hobbs

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

— V. S. Naipaul

I think observers, like me, sometimes know more about a place than the people who have lived there all their lives. People are always…

— Jean Marsh

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was…

— Warren Christopher

Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only…

— Gerald Gardner

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me…

— Jeremy Hardy

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from…

— Richard Dawkins

People often belittle the place where they were born.

— Mitch Albom