Born Quotes
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I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.
Ethel Waters
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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
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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 born man, woman and sexual beings.
Virginia Johnson
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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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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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
Willie Mays
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Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.
Naoki Higashida
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I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.
Sasha Alexander
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."
Natsuki Takaya
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To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
William Shakespeare
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
John Calvin
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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Bill Gates
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We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.
Carol S. Dweck
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
Robert Frost
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I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
Alessandro Manzoni
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A girl what's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.
L.A. Meyer
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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
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I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.
Ari Up
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I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization
Wilfrid Laurier
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You are worthy because you were born.
Oprah Winfrey
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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