I Was Born Quotes

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.

I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.

We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the Spirit of Jesus His first Born.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

All men are born equally free.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

I was definitely born a dreamer. I could never sit still, and I can't now.

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?

while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)

We are all born equally far from the sun.

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

I would love to have been born in the 60s.

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.