Born Quotes

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
We are all born mad. Some remain so. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Man was born free, but is everywhere in bondage. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. View quote
Mark Twain
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. View quote
Coco Chanel
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
In soft regions are born soft men. View quote
Herodotus
Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
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. View quote
Richard Bach
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. (George Bernard Shaw)
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. View quote
Orson Welles
An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. View quote
Daniel Webster
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. View quote
Joseph Heller
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. View quote
Boris Pasternak
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. (William Shakespeare)
Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..." View quote
C. S. Lewis
Christians are made, not born. View quote
Tertullian
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. View quote
Maria Callas
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. View quote
Petrarch