Born Quotes - page 5

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. (Charles Bukowski)
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. View quote
John Milton
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. View quote
Ian Fleming
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. View quote
Joseph Conrad
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do. View quote
Frank Frazetta
It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Our history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. View quote
James Nasmyth
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. (Charlie Parker)
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. View quote
Groucho Marx
I must confess, I was born at a very early age. View quote
Groucho Marx
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? View quote
Dante Alighieri
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. View quote
Judy Garland
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want respect for every man - who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do? View quote
Maxim Gorky
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. View quote
George Eliot
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved? View quote
Jack Kerouac
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. View quote
Jacques Lacan
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world. (Margaret Mead)
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. View quote
Dolly Parton
Stephen Fry on being gay My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.' View quote
Stephen Fry
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce. View quote
Emil Cioran
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. View quote
Emil Cioran