Born Quotes

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

Mitt Romney has made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S.

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

I am on the road all the time. Whether I'm in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can't tell the difference, and that's good. You don't have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.

The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.

I've been surrounded by dogs my whole life. I got a golden retriever a year after I was born.

In South Carolina, Senator John Edwards won handily, fulfilling his promise to win every state he was born in.

Virality isn’t born, it’s made.

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter how far away you are from civilization, you can't fully get away from that.

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is- the poet is born, not made.

Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

I was born with eyes that can never close.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar.

I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around in the living room. I just grew up with that. That was just my life.

I shouldn't have been there. I should never have been born.

[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder.

Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track.

I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.

He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born.

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

We aren't born for ourselves alone. You have to take care of other people.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

My business was born out of my frustration with other cashback schemes. I wanted a more curated service than the other sites offer.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.