"Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Where We Come Quotes

“Actors are not made, they are born.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.”

Source : Sue Grafton (2010). “"A" is for Alibi”, p.8, Macmillan
“In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.”
“A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.”
“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
“When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.”
“What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?”
“It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.”

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