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Quotes About Born

I wrote you a song about a funny old world that's coming along. It seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn. It looks like it's dying and it's hardly been born.
~ Bob Dylan
There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.
~ Brandon Sanderson
we are wired for connection. It's in our biology. From the time we are born, we need connection to thrive emotionally, physically, spiritually, and intellectually
~ Brene Brown
What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast?
~ Henry David Thoreau
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
~ Henry James
They don't want to see sad faces in Russia; they want you to be cheerful, enthusiastic, light-hearted, optimistic. It sounded very much like America to me. I wasn't born with this kind of enthusiasm
~ Henry Miller
In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
~ Herman Melville
Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any.
~ Herman Melville
I started freelancing for Serious Eats while I was still living in Boston. I was born there, grew up in New York City, but went back to Boston for school, and then I lived in Boston for about ten years.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.
~ Corey Stoll
Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we've played Radio City, and we've played The Beacon, but Carnegie was this mystical place, you know?
~ Joe Bonamassa
If I was not born in this lifetime in New York, certainly in a previous life, I was a New Yorker.
~ Santiago Calatrava
She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
~ Hubert Martin
The time is time. The place is anywhere. The voices speak to you across the air To say that once again a child is born. A child is born.
~ Stephen Vincent Bent
Like a true Nature's child, we were born, born to be wild
~ Steppenwolf
Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It's this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play.
~ Steve Lipscomb
I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.
~ John Cho
Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.
~ Tobias Lindholm
I love people. I was born loving people.
~ Betsy Palmer
Some texts are born literary, some achieve literariness, and some have literariness thrust upon them.
~ Terry Eagleton
I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'
~ Terry Pratchett
People are born with the ability to make judgments. And they can't help but use the information they have to divine something about the world they're in. Making categorical judgments, in large, helps our society.
~ Robert Lopez
I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
~ Eddie Cibrian
I was born in Kentucky and, while my family has deep roots there, I was an Air Force brat, and we followed my father to postings all over the world.
~ Gina Haspel