Born Quotes

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it!

I was born in platform heels. I actually always fall down when I'm wearing flip-flops.

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

I don't know how my mother did it, but I had boxing gloves on my hands when I was born!

Going home, it's what everybody's trying to do from the day they're born to the day they die, but going home together - that's marriage.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right.

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

Divas are not made, they are born.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

It is natural to die as to be born.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.

During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

You reincarnate forever because you exist forever. You can't die. You can't be born, your essence that is. You are on a big wheel.

Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

You cannot be born and you cannot die because you don't even exist ... in the sense that you think of existence.

The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before we were born.

You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.

Go directly to Nirvana. Don't pass go - or you'll have kids, you'll grow old together, you'll be born into another realm where you'll forget that there was even nirvana.

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.