I Was Born Quotes

I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

I was always a Favre fan. I was born in Wisconsin, and my whole family was Packers fans, so I grew up watching him.

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits!

Even before the kids are born, you've go to make these decisions. If it's a boy, do we get him circumcised? If it's a girl, do we keep her?

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain.

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

I remember playing Coachella and seeing kids in the audience who weren't even born when we had our initial run of success. They were singing along to every word, which was an amazing thing to see.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.