Born Quotes

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

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

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

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.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.