Born Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

I think there are some players born to play ball.

Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.

I think if you're Red Sox, well, it's something you're born with, and affection you have.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?

I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

Art is born in attention.

People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.

Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

Before a baby is born, you have a baby shower, not a fetus shower.

I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world

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.

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

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

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.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.