Born Quotes
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Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.
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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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Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.
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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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But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
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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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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.
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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!
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I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
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Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
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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.
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When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.
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The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
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But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.
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I was not born to crush my own kind.
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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
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I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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I think that's something that we as black people in this country have been robbed of. I compare it to my brother's wife, who is Hispanic. She was born in America but her parents are from Honduras. She speaks Spanish. She knows the culture. But most black people, we were robbed of that. We don't know our heritage.
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I could have been Captain Beefheart or Tom Waits, if I'd been born in America.
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No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
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Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
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My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
