Born Quotes
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr
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Surviving means being born over and over.
Erica Jong
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
Tertullian
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If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably sad. We know no more of our next change of life than we knew of this before we were born into it; but that which we call death is merely change, who can doubt?
Celia Thaxter
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Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
William S. Burroughs
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Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Eugene V. Debs
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I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.
Danny Burstein
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You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.
John Lennon The Beatles
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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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My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
Haruki Murakami
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin
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If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
Emily Yoffe
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The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.
Chang-Rae Lee
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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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Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
Dolly Parton
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I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.
Johnny Depp
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Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.
Seth Godin
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
Cesare Pavese
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All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.
Carolyn Wells
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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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You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way.
William Faulkner
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I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.
Johnny Depp
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You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.
Georges St-Pierre
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Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
Jonathan Swift