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I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
~ Patti Smith
I don't care to know what the reason is that I am gay. But when it comes to being a Jew who only has one God, I know for sure that I was born that way.
~ Sarah Schulman
Professional management was born from the desire to optimize and control, not to lead waves of change.
~ Scott Berkun
No house is born bad. Most are thought of fondly, even lovingly. In the beginning, the house on Kill Creek was no exception.
~ Scott Thomas
At heart, science is the quest for awesome - the literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time. It's a feeling we are all born with, although it often gets lost as we grow up and more mundane concerns take over our lives.
~ Sean Carroll
My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.
~ Augusten Burroughs
But if I were given a choice - of all centuries - I'd select last the curse of being born in this one. And perhaps, if I weren't curious, I'd choose never to be born at all.
~ Ayn Rand
We are loved. Born out of love, into love, to know love, and to be loved. Yes, we were born into a fallen, sorry world, which is at the same time more lovely than any fairy tale. It is both. And in this beautiful, heartbreaking world, God—the eternal, omniscient, amazing One—loves human beings. Including you. Especially you.  You are amazing.
~ Stasi Eldredge
the most likely candidates. In the rest of this book I'll try to explain how morality can be innate (as a set of evolved intuitions) and learned (as children learn to apply those intuitions within a particular culture). We're born to be righteous, but we have to learn what, exactly, people like us should be righteous about.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Becky's experience of poverty is common. In fact, temporary poverty like Becky experienced is far more common than the chronic, grinding deprivation that easily comes to mind when thinking of poverty. The idea that most people who require help are born poor and will always be poor, subsisting only thanks to state benefits, is increasingly out of whack with the facts.
~ Jonathan Morduch
As "teenager" became a group identity, a distinctive teen ethos and identity emerged; youth culture, as it became known, was born.
~ Jonathan Rauch
These will give our warriors strength," he told her. "Each cat will eat some before the battle." "Do you have anything for bravery?" Featherwhisker brushed his tail along her spine. "Bravery will come from your heart," he promised. "You were born a warrior, and StarClan will be with you.
~ Erin Hunter
Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?
~ beckett samuel ii
A good poet's made as well as born.
~ Ben Jonson
Poor wretches! I rather pity their folly and indiscretion, than their loss of time and money; for these may be recovered by industry: but to be a fool born is a disease incurable.
~ Ben Jonson
There is so much about the history of the Sistine that seems predestined. According to the more reliable sources, work began on renovating the chapel in 1475. In the very same year, in the Tuscan town of Caprese, Michelangelo Buonarroti was born.
~ Benjamin Blech
Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born?
~ Benny Hill
I want to rematch 'Cigano' in Brazil, at the Arena do Gremio in Porto Alegre. It would be a dream come true. Fighting in my hometown, where I was born and raised.
~ Fabricio Werdum
The Dead Man once told me that monsters aren't born, they're made. That they are memorials which take years of cruelty to sculpt. And that while we should weep for the tortured child who served as raw material, we should permit no sentiment to impede us while we rid the world of the terror strewn by the finished work. It took me a while to figure out what he meant but I do understand him now.
~ Glen Cook
I was born into an artistic family, and they understood me. But they were really worried, because some of the stuff I did was dangerous. If I'd been caught without the veil with a shaved head, I don't know what would have happened.
~ Golshifteh Farahani
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
~ Margaret Cavendish
We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time," she said. "I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")
~ Ray Bradbury
To be contemporary is to rise through the stack of the past, like the fire through the mountain. Only a heat so deeply and intelligently born can carry a new idea into the air.
~ Mary Oliver