Born Quotes

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Homer
- Time
- Brave
- Escape
I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.

W. G. Grace
- Up
- Good
- Long

We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

Marianne Williamson
- World
- Sense
- Natural
It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.

Bill Murray
- Life
- Day
- Born
Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

Umberto Eco
- Born
- Four
- Would Be
My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

Stevie Smith
- Wish
- Cold
- Muse
The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

William Plomer
- Eye
- Surprise
- Critics
Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.

Robert H. Schuller
- Faith
- Human
- Without