Born Quotes

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

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.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.