Born Quotes

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.