I Was Born Quotes

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

Great moments are born great opportunity.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

I think leaving [death] can be as joyous as - probably more joyous than - being born, because being born is very physically uncomfortable for the baby.

No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.

True advocacy is born from culture, not technology or marketing.

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.

Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.