Born Quotes

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

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

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

Man is born to eat.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.

I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

I cut the feet off of a pair of panty hose and it allowed me to wear a pair of great strappy sandals. I didn't see lines but the hose rolled up at my feet - and that's how Spanx born.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.

Born ham, that's basically me.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.