Born Quotes

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

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

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.