Born Quotes

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.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

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.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.