Born Quotes
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A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.
Anthony Capella
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I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now in Boston. And I lived in Iowa for a couple of years, where I studied at the Writers Workshop.
Ethan Canin
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We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person. So it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.
Natsuki Takaya
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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.
Sarah Dessen
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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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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.
Ray Bradbury
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Some leaders are born women.
Geraldine Ferraro
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Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.
Sun Ra
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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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I was born and raised Catholic.
Tom Araya Slayer
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I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.
Ernie Els
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You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
Ernest Cline
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I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.
Stephen Spender
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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.
Walt Whitman
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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.
Norman Vincent Peale
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People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them.
Natsuki Takaya
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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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When Kelly was born, I thought seriously about retirement. But I wanted to see if it was possible to mix being a mother with tennis and the two combined very well.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.
Sarah Silverman
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I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.
Charles Durning
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
Willa Cather
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I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.
Michael B. Jordan
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Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
Etgar Keret