Born Quotes
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
Patricia Clarkson
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Most of the bio men on earth were born to women, so it's pretty ordinary! But I think because I had come from a matriarchy - my father died when I was young, and I only have a sister and a stepsister - when I told my mom and my sister that I was having a boy, they were both like, "That does not compute within our family relation!" It was like, "Girls only here!" Now that all seems very strange to me.
Maggie Nelson
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A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.
Weegee
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
Jackie Walorski
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My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.
Carol Ross Barney
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
Gary Shteyngart
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I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.
Vernon Wells
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
Betty Smith
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Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.
Umera Ahmed
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
Bebe Neuwirth
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I’m Edward Clark. Born Edward Delacey. Now, apparently, Viscount Claridge.” He shut his eyes. “You can address me by my preferred title: you idiot.
Courtney Milan
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
Olive Schreiner
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Christians are made, not born.
Tertullian
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If it were up to me, it'd be outlawed. I mean, come on. Zach Braff was born streamlined, and that's how it should stay!
Zach Braff
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Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive.
Stephen Curry
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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
Willa Cather
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I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
Taylor Hicks
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
Orson Scott Card
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Sophocles
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Love will push every button, try every faith, challenge every strength, trigger every weakness, mock every value, and then leave you there to die. And then you will be ready to be born at last, to become a soul who is strong enough to take love on. You'll be a romantic mystic who has achieved the elements: you endured the flames of love, you were baptized in the waters of love, and now you can soar like only a mystic can through the skies and skin of a lover's heart.
Marianne Williamson
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When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.
Rick Astley
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.
Wallace Stegner