Born Quotes
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I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
John Lennon The Beatles
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The way you were born is the way you were born. Nothing can change it. I've got a deep voice. I know. I might look tough, but what are you going to do? Do you think you can change it? No.
Caster Semenya
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Be the artist you were born to be.
Robert H. Schuller
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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.
Thomas Hood
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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.
Wayne White
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Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians were in Israel, who we were before '48. As if we were born in 1948 according to them. They have no notion that we had a country, houses, rebelled against the Ottomans and the British. They think history in that region started in that moment.
Elia Suleiman
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It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
Alfred Polgar
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Beirut is where I was born and raised.
Reem Acra
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To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.
Ruth Gordon
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
Willa Cather
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[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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.
Carlos Varela
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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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We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
Henry Ward Beecher
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
Victor Hugo
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I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.
Cesar Romero
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The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence
William Arthur Ward
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Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.
Barbara Wood
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.
Roger Federer
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I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table.
Nicole Avant
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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
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Trenton Lee Stewart