I Was Born Quotes

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature

Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]

Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.

I'm looking at a place on the coast, ... I was born next to the ocean and I'd like to live next to the ocean.

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.

Before Kady was born, I didn't think having a kid would be such a big deal. My attitude was simple: Babies are nice, play with them, put them in the closet until the next time.

I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours it took my first child to be born than I did in all those years of study.

Fidel Castro was a born rebel.

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.

In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

I began to pay attention to Scripture and meet people who walked the walk, and little by little, I guess you could call me a born again Christian. 1978 is when I found my walk with the Lord.

I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.

My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. Ice Ice Baby is about that area.

The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.

Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

A lot of people think they're born for themselves; I don't think that. I believe that we're here to help other people all the way through.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

Each of us is born with a history already in place

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.