Born Quotes

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

I wasn't born a superstar.

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

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.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

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

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.