Born Quotes

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

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

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

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

Leadership is something I was born with.

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.