A Quote by Aasif Mandvi

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

Aasif Mandvi

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Born India Lived Never Really

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Aasif Mandvi
Indian - Actor
Born: March 5, 1966

It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

Hannah Simone

My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I'm very mixed up, been to many different schools.

Dichen Lachman

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

Taylor Caldwell

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

Taylor Caldwell

I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.

N. T. Wright

I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over to Canada as a refugee, and years later, we were able to join him.

Rupi Kaur

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Pico Iyer

There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)

John C. Maxwell

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Gertrude Stein

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

Shashi Tharoor

I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.

Sirio Maccioni

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

Alice McDermott

We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate.

Shawn Mullins

There are really at least two Indias, there is an India or a shining India the one which the west seas usually through urbanize and there is an India outside some of the big metro policies and in even the tier two cities and in rural India which is completely different. It goes by the name of Bahar which is a traditional name for India.