Born Quotes
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Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.
Evelyn Ashford
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If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.
Bill Burr
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But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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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.
William McFee
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O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
William Blake
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I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .
Kate Morton
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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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Beirut is where I was born and raised.
Reem Acra
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What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?
Blue Balliett
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All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn’t funny
Big L
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Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.
William Blake
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No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
Izaak Walton
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I knew I was going to do something great. I knew I wasn't going to die 20 miles from where I was born, no 20 miles from where I lived.
Adrian Robinson
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Be the artist you were born to be.
Robert H. Schuller
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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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We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.
Anthony Marais
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I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.
Melissa Etheridge
