I Was Born Quotes

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

You can't have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities.

We are born for cooperation

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

We are not born for ourselves alone.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

We are born poets. we become orators.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.

Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian.

Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed.

There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.