Born Quotes

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

I was born to be champion of the world.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

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

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

We are all born marked for evil.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.