I Was Born Quotes

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.

Surviving means being born over and over.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

Look at his collar! He's a kittypet! Once a kittypet, always a kittypet. This clan needs wild-born warriors to defend it, not another soft mouth to feed.

The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.

I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

Which was why, some six hours later, Alexia Maccon's daughter was born inside the head of an octomaton in the presence of her husband, a comatose werewolf dandy, and a French inventor.

I was born when my dad was 50... It's weird growing up with a dad that much older than you. We'd go to the movies, we're both getting discounts.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

I was so young when I was born.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me." "What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

Enemies are created, not born.

The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.

I was not born to be forced.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

No man is born without faults.

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.

Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...

I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.

Art should be born from the materials.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.