Born Quotes
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves
Ajahn Chah -
As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies.
Adam Nicolson
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The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.
Al MacInnis -
Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.
Red Auerbach -
To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
Willa Cather -
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.
Charles Dickens -
We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.
Suzy Parker -
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.
Ina May Gaskin -
When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.
Sarah Silverman -
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
Whoopi Goldberg -
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 -
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizner
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I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.
Etgar Keret -
Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?
William Stafford -
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.
Shana Alexander -
I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.
Augusto De Luca -
I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.
Anneliese Louise van der Pol -
We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.
Coco Chanel
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Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.
Ethel Watts Mumford -
Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission
Calvin Miller -
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
William Blake -
Regrets are born of paths never taken.
Michael Dell