Born Quotes
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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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What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.
Martin Heidegger
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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
Paul Elmer More
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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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I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.
Nicholas Stoller
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
Catherynne M. Valente
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No great man is ever born too soon or too late.
Norman Douglas
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Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Eugene V. Debs
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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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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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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 and raised Catholic.
Tom Araya Slayer
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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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Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Perfect food is born of perfect order.
Daniel Patterson
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Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.
Seth Godin
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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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There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
George Eliot
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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
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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Jonathan Swift