Born Quotes
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
Jane Austen -
I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.
Willem Dafoe
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Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
Ada Louise Huxtable -
Genius is born-not paid.
Oscar Wilde -
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.
Charlie Parker -
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
Sophocles -
I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.
Jack Roy -
When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
Liam Payne One Direction
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Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
Isaac Watts -
In back of the house where I was born there was an attic and from there you could see a poorhouse. I remember that very clearly.
Alan Hovhaness -
A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
Aharon Appelfeld -
When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.
Ogden Nash -
Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we've played Radio City, and we've played The Beacon, but Carnegie was this mystical place, you know?
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
I was born and raised in New York and I'm of an age where I want to just be home. But, you know, when you sign up to be an actor it's like joining the circus and the circus is not always going to be in your hometown.
Dean Winters
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No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.
John Lennon The Beatles -
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
William Dean Howells -
I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.
Val Kilmer -
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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When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.
Jean Ingelow -
Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
Lois Wyse -
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
Eudora Welty -
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.
Charlotte Bronte