Born Quotes

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William "Sticky" Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

I was born nine months premature.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

We have a beautiful little boy who is 18 months old and another little boy to be born in October. We are very excited about that.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

I was born in New York.

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.