Born Quotes
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There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.
Muddy Waters
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Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
Thomas Hood
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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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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
Emile Zola
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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
Willie Mays
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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
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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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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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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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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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
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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
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It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.
Lord Dunsany
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They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
Viola Davis
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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
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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
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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.
Michael Gough
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America, you must be born again!
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you an entry in the distinguished book of culinary records. Being known for great soufflé is one thing but a good hamburger? What would they say? "Yeah, he really knew how to put the cheese on."
Paul Newman
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Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.
Carlos Mencia
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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
Eudora Welty
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The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.
Sean M. Carroll
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He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.
Elsa Barker
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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
Edward McKendree Bounds