Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Quotes

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

You just are born the way that you're born.

I was born in Sri Lanka.

To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

You were born as the one you are.

I was born in New York.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

I was born in Amsterdam.

You don't get to choose where you were born; you only get to choose where you live.

I was born in Spain.

I was born in L.A.

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

I was not born in a teepee - that I know of. I actually don't know where I was born.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

A person can't help their birth.

Landscape shapes culture

You came from a source.

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.