Born Quote by Yasmine Hamdan Download Open image “I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.” — Yasmine Hamdan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Civil war I was born Middle War
Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is… — Ziad Doueiri Copy Share Image
I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston. — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier,… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute,… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic. — Yasmine Hamdan 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
