Born Quotes - page 3

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. (Emil Cioran)
I believe that every person is born with talent. View quote
Maya Angelou
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. View quote
Maya Angelou
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. View quote
Helen Hayes
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. View quote
Willa Cather
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
"Murder is born in love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.” (Garden of Tortures) View quote
Octave Mirbeau
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. (Wilson Mizner)
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. View quote
James Baldwin
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. View quote
James Baldwin
I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Why was I born with such contemporaries? View quote
Oscar Wilde
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. View quote
Brendan Behan
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us... There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you... We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. View quote
Marianne Williamson
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. View quote
John Buchan
I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar. (William Congreve)
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. View quote
George Sand
He not busy being born is busy dying. View quote
Bob Dylan
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess! View quote
Audrey Hepburn
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. View quote
Audrey Hepburn