Born Quotes

She was born in the Objective case.

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

I don't really have a plan. I've lived a very big life, and I don't feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother.

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

Self-love is born out of love of another.

When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

Well, I never been to HeavenBut I been to OklahomaWell, they tell me I was born thereBut I really don't rememberIn Oklahoma, not ArizonaWhat does it matter, what does it matter?

Some people say I'm a no count, others say I'm no goodBut I'm just a natural born travelin' manDoin' what I think I should, oh yeahDoin' what I think I should.

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

The faith I was born into formed me.