Born Quotes

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently

Since all men are created equal, I have to thank God I was born a woman.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

Everyone is born with some special talent.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.

The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

[On her father's death:] Gone was the person who had known me better than anyone else on earth and who had loved and admired me unconditionally since the day I was born.

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.

I was born into public service.

Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

President Obama’s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.

The good news is, President Obama was born in America. The bad news is, so was Donald Trump.

I was born the day I got my license. When I was a kid, if I wanted to go somewhere and see things, you have to get in your car and actually go.

True Yankees are born, not made.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

A born king is a very rare being.

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.