Born Quotes
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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.
Studs Terkel
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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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I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
Willa Cather
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Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?
Elise M. Boulding
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Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
Wendy Wasserstein
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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.
Red Auerbach
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I was born to murder the world.
Daniel von Bargen
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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.
Charles Dickens
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
Laurie Anderson
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You can't be born again, but you can change.
Natsuki Takaya
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
Hayao Miyazaki
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My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
Seneca the Younger
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I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!
Barbi Benton
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One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. The head and body - you know, a baby's born inside a woman's stomach, you know all that. But to watch this thing come out and fight for life, yo, and to see the woman's risking her life at the same time this thing is fighting for life, you know what I mean?
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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There are only three things we 'have to' do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
Bill Crawford
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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
Haruki Murakami
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All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.
Lao Tzu
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For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.
Alice Freeman Palmer
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I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
Eric Thomas
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I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
Beatrice Lillie
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...the beginning is where the end gets born.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.
Brandy