Born Quotes

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

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

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.

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

All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

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 Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

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.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

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.

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.