Born Quotes

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

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.

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time.

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

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

People aren't born racist.

It is natural to die as to be born.

These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

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

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.