Born Quotes

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

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

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

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

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

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

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!