Born famous quotes
04-18-2025
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I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
-- Aaron Copland -
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
Or maybe I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’d been born without one.
-- Abbi Glines -
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
Being the first born gives you great patience.
-- Abraham Verghese -
You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.
-- Adelaide Kane -
I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.
-- Adnan -
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
-- Aeschylus -
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.
-- Agnes Martin -
I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
-- Ai Weiwei -
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
-- Aime Cesaire -
Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
-- Ajahn Chah -
You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.
-- Alan Cohen -
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
-- Alan Kay -
I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.
-- Albert Hofmann -
Change holds danger, but also the potential for something new ~ and better ~ to be born.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
I have never known a woman who, after her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it.
-- Aleck Bourne -
We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.
-- Alex Scarrow -
Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.
-- Alexander Chee -
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
-- Alexander Scriabin -
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.
-- Alfred Jarry -
It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
-- Alfred Polgar -
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.
-- Alistair Maclean -
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
-- Amartya Sen -
I don't feel like millions of people are wrong because they love who they love or they were born how they were born.
-- Amber Heard -
... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.
-- Amin Maalouf -
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
-- Amos Oz -
Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
-- Anais Nin -
I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Art is born out of an ill-designed world
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
-- Andres Serrano -
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
-- Andy Rooney -
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
-- Andy Warhol -
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.
-- Angelus Silesius -
We were not born with guilt nor obligation. When you give in to guilt, you endorse it.
-- Anita Moorjani -
It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.
-- Anna Magnani -
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
-- Anne Lamott -
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
-- Anne Sexton -
Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.
-- Anne Ursu -
I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.
-- Anneliese van der Pol -
I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.
-- Anthony Foxx -
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
-- Ariel Sharon -
My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.
-- Art Linkletter -
Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.
-- Arthur Rock -
Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.
-- Auguste Rodin -
Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.
-- Azar Nafisi -
I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
-- Bai Ling -
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.
-- Barbara Wood -
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
-- Barry Bonds -
I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
-- Ben Katchor -
The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.
-- Ben Shahn -
Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.
-- Benjamin E. Mays -
We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
-- Bernadette Devlin -
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
-- Bette Midler -
You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
-- Betty Smith -
If you battle L, you picked the wrong head I smash mics like cornbread You can't kill me, I was born dead
-- Big L -
The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was.
-- Bill Kaulitz -
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
-- Bill Mauldin -
You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
-- Bill Parcells -
Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!
-- Billy Connolly -
You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.
-- Billy Graham -
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
-- Blaise Pascal -
What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?
-- Blue Balliett -
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
-- Bob Balaban -
I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.
-- Bobby Gould -
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
-- Boris Pasternak
