I Was Born Quotes

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.

When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

We are born with magic inside of us

Can't a person be born where they want to be born?

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

You might be a redneck if you were shooting pool when your kids were born.

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.