Born Quotes
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Born to lose. Live to win.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead -
I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.
Thomas Hardy
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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 -
Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.
Simon Sinek -
I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
Eric Thomas -
You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.
Georges St-Pierre -
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Sarah Dessen -
I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it!
Eva Longoria
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Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
Haruki Murakami -
We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
Seneca the Younger -
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 -
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 -
I was born a character actor.
Charles Durning -
Nobody is born a dancer.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I feel very lucky. The older I get, the more I see how random everything is, the luckier I feel to have been born into this context; the more responsible I feel to be the best that I can be as a person and as a professional. That was a quality... of the men on my father's side of the family.
Ethan Peck -
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 -
All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
Evan Esar -
Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
Stephen Covey -
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
Cesare Pavese -
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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I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.
Carlos Mencia -
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
George Eliot -
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 -
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