Born Quotes
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Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.
William Shakespeare
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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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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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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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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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Mother was born about 1880, and died in 1984 at the age of 103.
R. M. Williams
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I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
Quentin S. Crisp
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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 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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As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.
Natalie Portman
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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
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As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
Monica Seles
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Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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In back of the house where I was born there was an attic and from there you could see a poorhouse. I remember that very clearly.
Alan Hovhaness
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I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.
Augusto De Luca
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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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Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.
William Shakespeare
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Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?
Christina Stead
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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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Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
Walt Whitman
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Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.
Arvind Kejriwal
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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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I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
Bono U2