Born Quotes

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly

I am not born to make dreamy movies.

You might be a redneck if you were shooting pool when your kids were born.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

poets are born knowing the language of angels

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs.

To live is to be slowly born.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

Every person is born from an natural disposition, and the mother and father will make him into a Christian. So, I do believe that we are all born as Muslims, and, as we mature, we make decisions.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.

Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

Born free. Taxed to death.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!