Born Quotes
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I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of God in our ears, even the singing of the vast chorus of the sky, and the holy chant of the stars in their fixed rounds; it is the Holy Stream of Sound.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
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The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
Albert Camus
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Happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
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With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.
Betsy Prioleau
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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
Francis Bacon
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The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.
Al MacInnis
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You're a socialite because you're born into it. That's not what I want.
Sofia Richie
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We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.
Bryan Sykes
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
Katharine Hepburn
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The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.
Erving Goffman
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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
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People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.
George Jung
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Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.
Virginia Woolf
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In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.
Roberto Clemente
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You know, you are not born with a soul. You earn it with suffering, hard work and prayer. Which hopefully you did last night.
Yeardley Smith
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“From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in and the wall had been built up brick by brick by eager white hands.”
Ann Petry
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Genius is born-not paid.
Oscar Wilde
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway
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Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.
Ed Zern
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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.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.
Ernest Hemingway
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My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.
Anthony Ray Hinton
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Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
Stephen Spender