Born Quotes
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
Hampton Sides
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
Ada Yonath
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
Vanessa Ferlito
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
Fiona Shaw
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
Garry Wills
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It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.
Ella Reeve Bloor
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
Naomi Campbell
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I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?
Patrick Ness
