Born Quotes - page 28

What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"? (Blue Balliett)
On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids? View quote
Brad Meltzer
Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon. View quote
Bryan Lee O'Malley
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself? View quote
Vikas Swarup
They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
Some people are just born to cook and talk. View quote
Guy Fieri
Do not believe that man grows. No: he is born suddenly-a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood on to the ruggedness of the road. View quote
Ghassan Kanafani
This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution. View quote
Osamu Dazai
People talk of "social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a "social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness. View quote
Osamu Dazai
[I]t makes little difference where we draw the line between the pruning and shaping [of behavior] by natural selection which is genetically transmitted to offspring (the wiring you are born with), and the pruning and shaping that later takes place in the individual (the rewiring you end up with, as a result of experience or training). Nature and nurture blend seamlessly together. View quote
Daniel Dennett
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story. (Diane Setterfield)
There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body. View quote
David Levithan
Throughout our lifetimes we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in the hippocampus that ultimately differentiate into fully functional neurons. View quote
David Perlmutter
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do. View quote
Gianni Versace
Being born was the most influential thing that's ever happened to me, for myself. View quote
Jaden Smith
But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. View quote
George Jean Nathan
It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born. (Justin Cronin)
Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat. View quote
Aleksandar Hemon
Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them. View quote
Elizabeth Lowell
Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity. View quote
Ernesto Cardenal
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. View quote
Eugenio Montale