I Was Born Quotes

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

I was born to score goals, I feel.

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.

I was born in revolution.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them.

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

I guess some of us are just born with Tragedy in our blood

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I was born in the 50s, my mom was pregnant in the 50s, [Frank] Sinatra had that big come back around then, From Here to Eternity.

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

I get no respect... I tell you, when I was born, the doctor smacked my mother

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

There was light born on the darkest day, but no-one wants to know, and no-one wants to Cry

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.