Born Quotes
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No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.
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As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
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He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.
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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
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Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
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I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.
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There's nothing I can do about looking short. I'm born this way. And my face is on the long side so I look even shorter on screen. It's not an issue that can be solved by inserting extra heels into my shoes.
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There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.
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Genius is born-not paid.
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I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
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Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.
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Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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I am not a fake. I am natural. I am just being Caster. I don't want to be someone I don't want to be. I don't want to be someone people want me to be. I just want to be me. I was born like this. I don't want any changes.
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I always thought of men as being hard—maybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that I didn’t. I don’t know where he’d learned it, but it wasn’t something you got from a book, not something you could learn in an online class, not something you could borrow. Maybe it was something you were born with. Some people knew how to love and some people didn’t. Tom was the former. I was the latter. I didn’t know which one of us had it worse.
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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
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If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences
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We're born man, woman and sexual beings.
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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.
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No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.
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Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.
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A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
