Born Quotes

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

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

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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 were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

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.

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.