Born Quotes

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

I wasn't born thin. I train. But I would never starve myself. I mean, what is happening with women these days? I just couldn't see myself looking that thin. I like a bit of waist and leg.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

I was born in revolution.

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.