Born Quotes
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[In Adelaide] I was born here on 24 May 1908, in the coldest part of the State, at the start of a particularly cold winter that registered ten heavy snowfalls between June and September.
R. M. Williams
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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.
Aharon Appelfeld
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Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.
Ed Zern
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People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.
George Jung
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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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Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
Aristotle
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
John Calvin
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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
David Eugene Edwards
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I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
Vivienne Westwood
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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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I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.
Ethel Waters
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There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.
Simon Callow
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A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.
William Wrigley, Jr.
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Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
Yasmin Mogahed
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I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.
Judy Holliday
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I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
Abraham Lincoln
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Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins
Eyedea
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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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If you battle L, you picked the wrong head I smash mics like cornbread You can't kill me, I was born dead
Big L
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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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I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.
Eugene O'Neill
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If these gouaches live at all, it is because they are true, they derive from life. They are born of the unknown – and not of habit or know-how, or intention, or of some recipe.. ..there comes a time when serious work is no longer an effort. When demanding work of that kind no longer tires you.
Bram van Velde
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I don't have to try and be a comedian to fit in the band. It's such a comfortable vibe. Had I been born in Sheffield, I probably would have been in the original lineup.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard