Born Quotes - page 19

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born. (Andy Goldsworthy)

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Baruch Spinoza

When desire dies, fear is born.

Baltasar Gracián

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

Vladimir Nabokov

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

Steven Pressfield

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

Steven Pressfield

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

Johnny Depp

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Zig Ziglar

All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction.

John Calvin

One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation. That mountains, long conceived, are now being born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes. (John Muir)

In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.

John Muir

I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.

Kevin Warwick

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

Conrad Aiken

Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The feeling ("sens", Fr.) of solidarity that is born amidst a community rest on the feeling of antagonism arouse (aroused? arose?... sorry, - "suscité", Fr.) by those who are opposed to it. Most of the time we only adhere to a party or a group, in order to better (or more, - "pour mieux se", Fr.) differentiate ourselves of another.

African Spir

All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born.

William Butler Yeats

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.

Joan Crawford

I've alway known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.

Ray Bradbury

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

Bruce Fairchild Barton

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him. (Jonathan Swift)

Every night, and every morn, Some to misery are born. Every morn, and every night, Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to endless night.

William Blake

But most, thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

William Blake

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Plutarch

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

Michel de Montaigne

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