Born Quotes

• Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other Is fed with the necessity of seeing each other It is concluded with the impossibility of separation.

  

  Alisa Valdes
  • Love
  • Pleasure
  • Necessity

• Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Parent
  • Movement
  • Class

• We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Animal
  • Stupid
  • Cities

• My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Wish
  • Cold
  • Muse

• I was never born, I didnt die.

  

  Abhay Kumar
  • Die
  • Never
  • Born

• For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Praying
  • Ireland

• You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Opera

• 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
  • Different
  • Champion
  • Superhero

• If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

  

  Warren Berger
  • Born
  • Taught

• I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.

  

  Bobby Gould
  • Lie
  • Club
  • Coventry

• We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."

  

  Carter Heyward
  • Community
  • Relation
  • Ideology

• Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

  

  Tessanne Chin
  • Persons
  • Race
  • Issues

• Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Born
  • Praying
  • Conduct

• I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Born
  • Remaind

• Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

  

  Denison Witmer
  • See
  • Born
  • Association

• It’s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the wider world. It is nothing but a vehicle for our greater creative purpose but if we don’t give it fuel and keep it in good working order it instead becomes another obstacle to transcend, a physical one, as well as the many million fictitious mental ones that society presents.

  

  Evanna Lynch
  • Purpose
  • Ideas
  • Order

• I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here to the U.S. and the emergence of the Saudi and Iranian theologies in the world is that the headscarf became the hijab and the hijab is now the idea that is synonymous with headscarf.

  

  Asra Nomani
  • World
  • Women
  • Expectations

• Oswald: "All your life" Aurore: "What?" Oswald: "All your life, isn't that what you wanted to know? How long I loved you?" Aurore: "Well, yes, I suppose I did, but that wasn't what I was going to ask just now." Oswald: "I tell you I've loved you since the day you were born, and you tell me you want to know something else. There's no one quite like you, is there, Aurore?

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Day
  • Born
  • Loved

• Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother

  

  Robert Frost
  • Mother
  • Man
  • Woman

• 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
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Organization

• It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.

  

  Chris Campanioni
  • Need
  • Say
  • Become

• When I was born I was given a choice. To be astoundingly cute or to have a great memory.

  

  Sanha Astro
  • Choice
  • Memory
  • Cute

• Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Brown
  • Midst
  • Corn

• The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Born

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