Born Quotes
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
Garry Wills
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
Orlando Bloom
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
Damien Chazelle
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That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.
William Shakespeare
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
Tariq Ali
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The sun exactly at noon is exactly beginning to go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly beginning to die.
Hu Shih
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I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?
Patrick Ness
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
Vanessa Ferlito
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
Tammy Blanchard
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
Hampton Sides
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X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.
Sam Kean
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If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
Coco Chanel
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
Maajid Nawaz
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Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
Vanessa Mae
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My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
Nargis Fakhri
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
Dambisa Moyo
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I was born in the technology era.
Maluma
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
Hannah Storm
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
M. J. Hyland
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
Basil Rathbone
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Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.
David Deida