Born Quotes

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.

I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

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

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.