Born Quotes - page 22

A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you. (Charles Manson)
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
You couldn't help that you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed - so you were a good man just the same. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
In my case, that number is 45. And given that I was born on December 13, 1945 my conception, gestation, and birth all occurred within that year that number has been with me, literally, for all my life, to date. The number 45 keeps on popping up as I go about the business of getting elected you guessed it as the forty-fifth president of the United States of America. View quote
Herman Cain
Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. View quote
Louis Brandeis
To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime. View quote
Bill Gates
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity. (Victor Hugo)
Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace, And not to chance as others do, That I was born of Christian race, And not a Heathen, or a Jew. View quote
Isaac Watts
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages? View quote
Stanisław Leszczyński
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... it is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people. View quote
Frank I. Cobb
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz
I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema. View quote
Pedro Almodóvar
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. View quote
Vince Lombardi
Before man's fall the rose was born, St. Ambrose says, without the thorn; But for man's fault then was the thorn Without the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world. View quote
Hayao Miyazaki
Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used. (Russell Baker)
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. View quote
Satchel Paige
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born. View quote
Gary Gilmore
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. View quote
Chaim Potok
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes