Born Quotes
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The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
Ida Tarbell
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Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?
Ray Bradbury
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When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!
Jack Roy
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I was born five months after my parents were married, so I understand why mistakes have informed my world.
Christopher Doyle
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I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.
Renato Dulbecco
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Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of the fundaments of creation.
Juan Rulfo
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Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!
Edward Robb Ellis
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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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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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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
Honore de Balzac
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In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.
William Shakespeare
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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
Willie Mays
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I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
Tommy Shaw
Styx
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A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
John Ruskin
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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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
Petrarch
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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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Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.
William S. Burroughs
