Born Quotes - page 17

I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit. (Margaret Sanger)
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them. View quote
Melanie Phillips
Jesus Christ-who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens-can now be eaten in the form of a cracker. View quote
Sam Harris
Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte. View quote
Alex Haley
I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman. View quote
Ian Paisley
It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? View quote
Dr. Seuss
What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way. View quote
E. E. Cummings
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. View quote
Auguste Rodin
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. (Oscar Wilde)
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. View quote
Oscar Wilde
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. View quote
Alfred de Vigny
Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other - by their skins, their language, their smell: always jealous of each other, always hating each other - they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity. View quote
Nhat Hanh
I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life. View quote
Davy Crockett
I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens. View quote
Billy Corgan
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score. View quote
Saki
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise. (Adlai Stevenson II)
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life. View quote
Sean M. Carroll
Leaders are not born or made - they are self made. View quote
Stephen Covey
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented. View quote
Erving Goffman