Born Quotes

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

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.

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Germany has been born anew.

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

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