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.

'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.

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

Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

I was born into a family of preachers.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

I was born with the gift.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

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.