Born Quotes
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I was born five months after my parents were married, so I understand why mistakes have informed my world.
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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.
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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.
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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
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To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
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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.
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We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins
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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.
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When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!
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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.
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We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.
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I’ve learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.
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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
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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.
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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.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
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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!
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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The portrait in his, and he's walking out of the house he was born in with blood on his hands and his head held high and his mother's face on his back, his own inalienable albatross, for all the world to see.
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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?
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What I really wanted wasn't fame. All I wanted was to know whether or not I should've been been born.
