Born Quotes - page 18

We are born by accident into a purely random universe. (Robert Silverberg)
If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple. View quote
Tariq Ali
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them. View quote
Dick Francis
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. View quote
Thomas Gray
[Nietzsche inveighs] against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks. View quote
Georg Brandes
We are born in ignorance, we die in ignorance, but maybe sometimes we learn something important and pass it along to others before we die. Or we write it down in a little book. View quote
Greg Bear
Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born. View quote
William Shenstone
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites. View quote
Abraham Polonsky
Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work. View quote
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived. View quote
Enoch Powell
I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism. (Enoch Powell)
They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? View quote
Rex Stout
Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. View quote
Pablo Neruda
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. View quote
Rafael Sabatini
In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time. View quote
Albert Camus
With rebellion, awareness is born. (Albert Camus)
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
Hark how all the welkin rings,, "Glory to the Kings of kings; Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!" Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. Universal nature say "Christ is born today!" View quote
Charles Wesley
If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown. View quote
Isaac Asimov
If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human. View quote
Ihara Saikaku