Born Quotes
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I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.
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The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.
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I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
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I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .
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Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
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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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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
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In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
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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.
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I was born where there were no enclosures.
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Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.
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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 can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.
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My business was born out of my frustration with other cashback schemes. I wanted a more curated service than the other sites offer.
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So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.
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We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.
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I was born to murder the world.
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Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.
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Every time a child is born, we have another chance.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.
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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.
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Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.
