Born Quotes

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

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

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

The moment you're born you're done for.

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

I was not born with tremendous ambition.

Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.

Revolutions are born of hope.

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.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.