Born Quotes

Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.

I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.

My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that most champions are born into certain environments and encouraged early. Then, later on, they might get some assistance from their federations.

The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

You can become all God created you to be even if you've had difficulties, even if you weren't born into a good, loving family, God still has a plan for your life.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.

Be who you were born to be - it's what living things do.

Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.

Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.

I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.

Genius must be born, it can't be taught.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

Some of us are born big-minded with small penises. Others have big penises and small-minded.

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.

It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital.

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.