Born Quotes - page 6

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. (Emil Cioran)
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent. View quote
William Penn
Genius must be born, and never can be taught. View quote
John Dryden
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend The worlds an inn, and death the journeys end. View quote
John Dryden
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd The next, in majesty in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go To make a third, she join'd the former two. View quote
John Dryden
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. View quote
Helen Frankenthaler
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? View quote
Mary Astell
I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die. View quote
Helen Thomas
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. View quote
Margaret Fuller
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy. (Margaret Fuller)
I was born in Europe and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. View quote
James Baldwin
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise King born of all England. View quote
Thomas Malory
Yes, the universe had a beginning. Yes, the universe continues to evolve. And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnace within high-mass stars. We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. View quote
William Cowper
Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them! View quote
John Gay
I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing. View quote
Alistair Maclean
A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. (Will Durant)
Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there. View quote
Sacha Guitry
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging! View quote
Alexander McCall Smith