Born Quotes

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.

I don't think we die. I think our bodies leave, but we can never die. That which is never born, can never die. And that which never changes, can never die.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.

Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.

Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.

But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born.

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.

Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.

Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

It is another face in the new atmosphere of many leaders inside Israel. No doubt it is something new. Actually, Ezer Weizman is a Palestinian. He was born in Haifa.

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

If it were up to me, it'd be outlawed. I mean, come on. Zach Braff was born streamlined, and that's how it should stay!

Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.

All Mongol women are born to the horse and the bow.

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.

I was born in a Negro town.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

In simple words, whatever you were born to do, you were equipped to do it. You are a whole equipment for success!

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.