Born Quotes

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William "Sticky" Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

I was born nine months premature.

'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

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

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

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