Born Quotes
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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
George Bernard Shaw
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
Seneca the Younger
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All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.
Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
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I was born free as Caesar; so were you
William Shakespeare
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I was not born to crush my own kind.
George Hearst
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
Molly Ivins
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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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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 was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.
Carlos Mencia
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All is born of water; all is sustained by water.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.
Nick Turse
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I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.
Suzy Parker
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No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I feel very lucky. The older I get, the more I see how random everything is, the luckier I feel to have been born into this context; the more responsible I feel to be the best that I can be as a person and as a professional. That was a quality... of the men on my father's side of the family.
Ethan Peck
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I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
will.i.am
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Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.
Barbara Holland
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It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born.
George Ticknor
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Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.
David Foenkinos
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Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
Eugene Ionesco
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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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We aren't born for ourselves alone. You have to take care of other people.
Kass Morgan
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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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Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
Austin Kleon
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You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.
Tom Rachman