Born Quotes - page 27

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit. (Wade Davis)
I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime. View quote
Felix Baumgartner
I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we? View quote
Philippa Gregory
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship. View quote
Harville Hendrix
Migration was not the only unpleasant experience I went though. I was born and lived in a country ruled by a brutal dictator whose wars never ended, and from an early age I was passionate about understanding the world through knowledge. View quote
Hassan Blasim
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses. View quote
Holly Black
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. View quote
Jose Bergamin
... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent. View quote
Hugo Hamilton
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves... View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue. (Shannon Hale)
Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it. View quote
Shannon Hale
I wasn't born, I was unleashed. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
But then, his revenge had been more direct. He'd hunted down the ones who'd killed his sister and nephew – those who'd survived his mother's attack – and he'd made them wish they'd never been born with nerve endings.' (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won't be denied. Nothing daunts them. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who've hurt you. (Kiara) You're doing that now. (Nykyrian) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." 'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. View quote
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out. View quote
Ernest Klein
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films. View quote
Junot Diaz
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary. (Barbara Demick)
Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once. View quote
Barbara Wood
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. View quote
Bela Lugosi
You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react. View quote
Aisha Tyler
I began working as a model because I was born thin. I didn't become thin to be a model. View quote
Bianca Balti