Born Quotes

I was born to travel and write verse.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

Everything that gets born dies.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

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

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.