Born Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
Honore de Balzac
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When I was born I was given a choice. To be astoundingly cute or to have a great memory.
Sanha Astro
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I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.
Judy Holliday
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We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
Studs Terkel
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If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.
Caster Semenya
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
James Boswell
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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.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
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I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
William Shakespeare
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I was not born to share the hate, but love.
Sophocles
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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 was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
Ethan Suplee
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I think I was born with a suitcase.
Sherman Alexie
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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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From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.
Muhammad Iqbal
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It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.
Chris Campanioni
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When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.
Helen McCrory
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No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.
Bob Avakian
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.
William Wells Brown