Born Quotes

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

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

I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

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.

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.