I Was Born Quotes
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't.
Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.
A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.
Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!
I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.
Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.
Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.
All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.
To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.
YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.
You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.
The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.
I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.
There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.
I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.
Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.