Born Quotes
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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
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My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
Abraham Lincoln
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
Adam Driver
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If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III The Alpha Band
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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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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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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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I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
Burgess Meredith
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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 was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
Mikhail Lermontov
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All films are born free and equal.
Andre Bazin
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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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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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I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.
Ted Dekker
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You look at him and he's just a born footballer.
Eddie Charles Jones
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
Yann Martel
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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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We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
Marianne Williamson
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It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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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All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!
Irma S. Rombauer