I Was Born Quotes

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

When a child is born, there are two births. The birth of the child and the birth of the mother.

I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.

One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.

There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.

I've been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn't want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn't understand why I couldn't.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.

You know that we are lost when babies are addicted to drugs when they are born.

I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing

I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me.

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.

Your true cosmopolitan is born, not made. He is very rare.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.

Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.

What magic shall solve us the secretOf beauty that's born for an hour?

Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.

When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.

I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

Do you know how to wrap a leg?" "I was born wrapping legs," I say stiffly, because I'm insulted. "Must've been a challenging delivery," Sean notes.

And it totally has transformed my relationship with someone like, say, Bach. You know, Bach is born 330 years ago but, you know, gosh, he really is alive.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.