Born quotes

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

People are either born hosts or born guests.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal ; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up...a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.