Born Quotes
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We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.
Andrew Solomon
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It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you an entry in the distinguished book of culinary records. Being known for great soufflé is one thing but a good hamburger? What would they say? "Yeah, he really knew how to put the cheese on."
Paul Newman
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We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
Studs Terkel
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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.
Sean Covey
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
Virginia Woolf
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The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Be the artist you were born to be.
Robert H. Schuller
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Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
Rei Kawakubo
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Here's what's interesting about Katharine Hepburn: she was born a girl but identified as a boy, so she shaved her head and rechristened herself Jimmy.
William J. Mann
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What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?
Blue Balliett
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Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.
William Blake
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I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.
Warren MacKenzie
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Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.
Michael Cera
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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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A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.
George Pope Morris
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Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people.
Brother Theodore
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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
Conn Iggulden
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O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
William Blake
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Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die.
Walter Breuning
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All my life I’ve been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn’t funny
Big L
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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
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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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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