Born Quotes
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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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You look at him and he's just a born footballer.
Eddie Charles Jones
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I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
Ziggy Marley
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No one is born hating others.
Daisaku Ikeda
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No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.
Maisie Williams
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I was born to make mistakes, I ain't scared to take the weight.
Erykah Badu
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We should remember that they were not born with a lust for murdering Israelis.
Avi Dichter
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I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.
Ted Dekker
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We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.
Natalie Cole
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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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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
W. S. Gilbert
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There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.
Caroline Gordon
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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.
William Robertson Smith
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All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
Maya Angelou
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For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.
Empedocles
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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera.
Ezra Pound
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It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
Ziggy Marley
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No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.
Harry Bridges
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Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!
Irma S. Rombauer
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Luck plays an enormous role in trading success. Some people were lucky enough to be born smart, while others were even smarter and got born lucky.
Ed Seykota