Born Quotes
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I could have been Captain Beefheart or Tom Waits, if I'd been born in America.
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When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!
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My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.
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Being is born of not being.
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I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.
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Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.
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Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.
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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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My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn't know which end to spank.
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Be the artist you were born to be.
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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
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It's true. I......I wanted to be born in the year of the cat......!
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I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.
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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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A word does not say anything And at the same time it hides everything Just as the wind that hides the water Like the flowers that mud hides. A glance does not say anything And at the same time it says everything Like rain on your face Or an old treasure map A truth does not say anything And at the same time it hides everything Like a bonfire that does not go out Like a stone that is born dust. If one day you need me, I will be nothing And at the same time I will be everything Because in your eyes are my wings And the shore where I drown.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly.
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Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.
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I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.
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Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?
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You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.
