Born Quotes

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

I want eternity. I was born for greater things.

Flowers are born, and they wither...

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.

Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses.

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom.

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

I was born to be champion of the world

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

Some people seem to be born to suffer.