Born Quotes

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

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

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.