Born Quotes
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Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Eugene V. Debs
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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 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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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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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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We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.
Ernest Holmes
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Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
William S. Burroughs
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Surviving means being born over and over.
Erica Jong
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All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
Evan Esar
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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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Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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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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I was born in platform heels. I actually always fall down when I'm wearing flip-flops.
Eva Longoria
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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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Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
Jonathan Swift
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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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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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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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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
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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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Perfect food is born of perfect order.
Daniel Patterson
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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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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
Cesare Pavese