Born Quotes - page 4

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? (Richard Dawkins)
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. View quote
Richard Dawkins
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Friends are born, not made. View quote
Henry Adams
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. View quote
Stephen Leacock
All men are by nature born equally free and independent. View quote
George Mason
All men are born truthful and die liars. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. View quote
Andy Warhol
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. (Izaak Walton)
It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! View quote
Hans Christian Andersen
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. View quote
Erich Fromm
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it. View quote
Erich Fromm
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born. View quote
Horace
We are just statistics, born to consume resources. View quote
Horace
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. View quote
William Shakespeare
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right. View quote
William Shakespeare
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. (Simone de Beauvoir)
I am not afraid... I was born to do this. View quote
Joan of Arc
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. View quote
Mark Twain
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years. View quote
Pierre Corneille