100+ Born Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Interview with Rob Walker in San Francisco, California, as part of The Silicon Genesis Project with Stanford University, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

topic: New York, Born, Rochester, Born And Raised

Some people seem to be born to suffer.

- August Strindberg

topic: People, Suffering, Born

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

topic: Work, Littles, Born

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

- Aulus Persius Flaccus

source: "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, I, 111. 83,

topic: Born, Nothingness

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

- Azar Nafisi

source: Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. February 5, 2004.

topic: Country, Born, Exile

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

topic: Accepting, Born, Just Live

When desire dies, fear is born.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Anxiety, Desire, Born, Worldly Wisdom, Desire To Achieve

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Animal, Mammals, Born

Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.

- Barbara Wood

topic: Born, Do Not Fear

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

- Barry Bonds

topic: Baseball, Born

A good poet's made as well as born.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Poet, Born, Made

All concord's born of contraries.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Contradiction, Born

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

- Ben Katchor

topic: Born, Cougars, Call Me

You were born original don't die a copy

- Ben Mikaelsen

topic: Born, Copies

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

topic: Art, Intuition, Born

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

topic: Men, Strive, Born

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

- Bernadette Devlin

topic: Unjust, Born, Grows

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Hope, Misery, Born

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

topic: Way, Born, Entertaining

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

- Betty Smith

topic: Rotten, Born

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

source: Song: Put it On, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

topic: Battle, Born, Mics, Cornbread

The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was.

- Bill Kaulitz

topic: Best Birthday, Born, Minutes

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

- Bill Mauldin

source: Bill Mauldin, Todd DePastino (2008). “Willie & Joe: The WWII Years”, Fantagraphics Books

topic: Might, Born, Troublemaker, Trouble Maker

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

- Bill Parcells

topic: Dream, Born, Ability

Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Born

Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!

- Billy Connolly

source: Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.283, Akashic Books

topic: Born

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

- Billy Graham

topic: Suffering, Born, Loopholes

The seed of sin is in us when we are born.

- Billy Graham

topic: Choices, Sin, Born

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

topic: Usual, Common, Born

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

topic: Born, Foreigners

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

- Bob Balaban

source: Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

topic: Lakes, My Family, Born, Wellington

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

- Bob Fosse

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Perfect, Thank God, Born

I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.

- Bobby Gould

topic: Lying, Clubs, Born, Liaison, Coventry

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

- Boris Pasternak

source: Doctor Zhivago ch. 9 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

topic: Inspirational Life, Men, Born, Doctor Zhivago, Born To Live

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Oklahoma, Born

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

- Brendan Behan

topic: Years, England, Born

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

- Brent Weeks

topic: Mountain, Matter, Born

We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.

- Busy Philipps

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Names, Born

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Born, Adore, Unfree, Predestination, Born To Be Free

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

- Carine Roitfeld

topic: Thinking, Chic, Born, Elegant, Born This Way

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Important, Born

Leadership is something I was born with.

- Carmelo Anthony

topic: Basketball, Born

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.

- Carolina Maria de Jesus

source: Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

topic: Death, Way, Born

Perhaps there will come a time when... an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood... and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

- Caroline Norton

source: "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.

topic: Mother, Motherhood, Born, Denied, Unmarried

We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."

- Carter Heyward

source: Carter Heyward (1989). “Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God”, Harper San Francisco

topic: Community, Movement, Born

What do you think, I was born at 60?

- Casey Stengel

topic: Baseball, Thinking, Born

I'm gay, and I was born this way.

- Cat Cora

topic: Gay, Way, Born, Born This Way

Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?

- Catherine Marshall

topic: Children, Poverty, Born

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Bitterness, Privilege, Born

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born â€¦ in poetry.

- Cecil Day-Lewis

topic: Way, Using Words, Born

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

- Cecil Rhodes

topic: Winning, Firsts, Born

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

- Celine Buckens

source: "Celine Buckens’ Horse Sense". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

topic: Parent, Born, Belgians

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Cry, Born, Pointless

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

- Chantal Kreviazuk

topic: Born, Raised, Wells, Born And Raised

Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Genius, Idiot, Born

I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

- Charles Durning

topic: Teenager, Aging, Born

I was born a character actor.

- Charles Durning

topic: Character, Actors, Born, Character Actors

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.

- Charles Keating, Jr.

topic: Thinking, Years, Born

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

- Charles Keating, Jr.

topic: London, England, Born

Beauty tips. How to look younger: Don't be born so soon.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Looks, Born

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.

- Charles Olson

topic: One Love, Form, Born

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

- Charles Olson

topic: Sorry, Towels, Born

There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.

- Charles Simic

topic: People, Decision, Born

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Good Things, Born

Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Stars, Chaos, Born

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

- Charlie LeDuff

source: Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.184, Penguin

topic: Trying, Born, Be Good

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

- Charlie Parker

topic: Music, Play, Born, High Notes

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

- Cheryl Strayed

topic: Bravery, Stories, Born

Ive been playing music since I was born.

- Chord Overstreet

topic: Playing Music, Born

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

- Chris Wooding

source: Chris Wooding (2014). “Poison”, p.10, Scholastic UK

topic: Looks, Born

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

- Christopher McDougall

topic: Running, Born To Run, Born

Characters are born from necessity.

- Christopher Paolini

topic: Character, Born

All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.

- Christopher Pike

topic: Life Is, Ends, Born

I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.

- Christopher Pike

topic: Want, Wanting To Die, Born

Born free. Taxed to death.

- Christopher Titus

topic: Philosophy, Born, Born Free

Those born once will die twice and those born twice will die once

- Chuck Missler

topic: Born

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

- Chuck Yeager

topic: Pilots, Natural, Born

So from an angry lawman's mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born.

- Chuck Zito

topic: Mouths, Outlaw, Born

History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

- Cinda Williams Chima

topic: Mistake, Needs, Born

I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.

- CJ Roberts

topic: Monsters, Born, Made

Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.

- Claire Weekes

topic: Art, Weakness, Born

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

- Clarice Lispector

source: Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

topic: Molecules, World, Born, Prehistory

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

- Conrad Veidt

topic: Eye, Born, Monocles

I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.

- Corey Reynolds

source: "What I’d Say to POTUS" by Corey Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2011.

topic: Virginia, Born, Raised, Richmond

Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

- Corey Stoll

topic: New York, Woody, Born, New Yorkers

You are either born a writer or you are not.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Born

My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,â€ said Dustfinger at last.

- Cornelia Funke

topic: Stories, Lasts, Born, Dustfinger

Boldness is behavior born out of belief.

- Craig Groeschel

topic: Belief, Behavior, Born

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

- Craig Stone

topic: Cages, Born, Born Free

I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.

- Cuba Gooding, Jr.

source: Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

topic: Son, Firsts, Born

I was born and bred to be a great flirt

- Cybill Shepherd

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Flirting, Born

Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.

- Cynthia Asquith

topic: People, Thirty, Born

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

- Czeslaw Milosz

topic: Born

Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.

- Dai Vernon

topic: Magic, Comedy, Born

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

- Daniel Barenboim

topic: Variation, Conducting, Born, Schoenberg

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

- Daniel Ek

topic: Sweden, Born, Piracy

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire PR officers.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "Book of Humorous Quotations" by Connie Robertson, (p. 29), 1998.

topic: Greatness, Achieve, Born, Most Memorable, Mind Playing

Perfect food is born of perfect order.

- Daniel Patterson

topic: Order, Perfect, Born, Perfect Food

I was born to murder the world.

- Daniel von Bargen

source: "Fictional character: Nix". "Lord of Illusions", www.imdb.com. 1995.

topic: World, Murder, Born

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

- Daniel Webster

topic: Leadership, Patriotism, Born, July 4, Inspirational Patriotic

We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.

- Daniel Wildenstein

topic: Long, Racing, Born, Astonishing

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

- Daniel Woodrell

topic: Pits, World, Born

As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born â€“ and particularly bad luck it is.

- David Benatar

source: David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press

topic: Luck, Enough, Born, Unlucky

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

- David Brin

topic: Sarcastic, Mean, Born, Gaia

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

- David Brooks

topic: Way, Matter, Born

Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

- David Carradine

topic: Play, Born, Hmmm

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

- David Cronenberg

source: "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

topic: Dying, Imagine, Born

Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

- David Dark

source: David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.17, Zondervan

topic: Answers, Born

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

source: David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Waiting, Born, Stop Hoping

Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.

- David Foenkinos

source: David Foenkinos (2011). “Delicacy”, p.201, A&C Black

topic: Beautiful, Born, Inconvenience

If you're born once, you die twice; but if you're born twice, you die once.

- David J. Stewart

topic: Inspiration, Born

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

- David Levithan

topic: Body, Born, Harder

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.