Born Quotes
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Sophocles
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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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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 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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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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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
Orson Scott Card
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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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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
Irwin Shaw
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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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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci
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Christians are made, not born.
Tertullian
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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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Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.
Karen Allen
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She wondered how soon after the first baby was born of the rape of a black woman by a white man did some slaver decide that light-skinned slaves were smarter and better by virtue of white blood? And how long after that had some black people decided to take advantage of that myth?
BarbaraNeely
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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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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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The second somebody dies somebody else is born People are celebrating while other people morn Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns
Aceyalone
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A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.
Weegee
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I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
Andy Rooney
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
Barry Bonds
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Just stopping and looking back won’t lead to anything being born
Sho Sakurai Arashi
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Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
Benigno Aquino III
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We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.
Luke Rhinehart