Born Quotes

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.

Floote, what is going on? Do they think I am contagious? Should I assure them I was born with a nose this size?

I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.

It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

The only city people are those born so.

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

No insignificant person was ever born.

We must have the attitude that every child in America - regardless of where they're raised or how they're born - can learn.

Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.

I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

The supreme adventure is being BORN

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

You know, the energy I think I was just born with. I think I was just always like that as I kid; I was always real energetic.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.

I was born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.