Born Quotes

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.