Born Quotes

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

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.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

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.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.