Born Quotes
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I think that's something that we as black people in this country have been robbed of. I compare it to my brother's wife, who is Hispanic. She was born in America but her parents are from Honduras. She speaks Spanish. She knows the culture. But most black people, we were robbed of that. We don't know our heritage.
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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.
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I was born where there were no enclosures.
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Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.
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People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them.
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I was not born to crush my own kind.
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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.
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Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.
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Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.
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I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.
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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?
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I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.
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Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
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All through the ages prophets have looked down through the corridors of time to our day. Billions of the deceased and those yet to be born have their eyes on us. Make no mistake about it...this is a marked generation. There has never been more expected of the faithful in such a short time than there is of us.
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.
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But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
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No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.
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Being is born of not being.
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A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.
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When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.
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Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.
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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.
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When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.
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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.
