Born Quotes

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.

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.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.