Born Quotes
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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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I was born near a station. The first things that I saw in my life were the moving locomotives and trains, and I drew them as a three-year-old. Perhaps it is because of this that observations of movement are my impetus for my inspiration to create. Out of this I receive a creative experience of life, which is the source of creativity.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.
William Blake
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Christ is born into the world through each of us.
Marianne Williamson
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The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
Helen Keller
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I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.
Peter O'Toole
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We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.
George Eliot
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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
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I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.
Ezola B. Foster
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I think people are born for their destinies. Certain people are gifted to use their hands, or voices or minds. I’m fortunate enough to be such a person.
Halston
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The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.
Hayao Miyazaki
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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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We were not born to sue, but to command.
William Shakespeare
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I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
William Shakespeare
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From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.
Isabelle Eberhardt
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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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I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
Quentin S. Crisp
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
William Blake
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When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear our formula on our arm band!
Christina Stead
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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 was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
Carrie Fisher
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
William Hazlitt
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
Ezra Pound
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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