Born Quotes

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.

Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire.

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Germany has been born anew.

You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear.

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.

We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

What is it like after you die? Just like it was before you were born.

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.