Born Quotes
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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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Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
Thomas Carlyle
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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 looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.
Charles Durning
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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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Nothing about my birth - or yours - was random or accidental. I was born for this time - and so were you. We were each chosen for a particular, cosmically important task that can be done by no one else.
Christine Caine
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A child has been born for us, A son given to us; Authority rests upon his shoulders; And he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God
Bart Ehrman
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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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I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
Beatrice Lillie
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
Will Durant
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It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...
Cesare Pavese
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We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.
Jimmy Carter
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Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
Terry Brooks
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I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Sarah Dessen
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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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If Moroccans born in Holland commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does.
Geert Wilders
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
Stephen Covey
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There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
George Eliot
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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 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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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill