Born Quotes
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A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born.
T. Berry Brazelton
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
W. S. Gilbert
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I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.
Donny Osmond
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Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.
Paul Auster
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I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.
Ella Baker
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Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
Nastassja Kinski
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I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.
Francesco Quinn
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I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.
Hannah Simone
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As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
Gautama Buddha
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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator
Of my triumph or my doom.
Mikhail Lermontov
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I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.
Rana el Kaliouby
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The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
Patricia MacLachlan
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It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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You can be born gay, but not because of your genetics, I think because of your subconscious more than your genetics. I think genetically, we're made to reproduce. We can't survive this route. Genetically, that's the way to go. Genetically, we have to reproduce, but subconsciously, and preferentially, you can be born with that.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
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Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!
Irma S. Rombauer
