I Was Born Quotes

You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "not born".

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

Some people seem to be born to suffer.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

I was born a Brahmin, but I'm not a Brahmin

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of the fundaments of creation.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head

I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had.

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.

The future is born, put the past in a casket

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.

Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the world'

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

Self-creation never ends. You are continually creating yourself from the field of infinite possibilities. You are, in every moment, born again. And so is everyone else.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.