Born Quotes - page 75

Fumbling in total darkness, they reached out to each other, naked, he penetrated her with desire and she received him eagerly, and they exchanged eagerness and desire until their bodies were locked in embrace, their movements in harmony, her voice rising from the depth of her being, his totally submerged, the cry that is born, prolonged, truncated, that muffled sob, that unexpected tear, and the machine trembles and shudders, probably no longer even on the ground but, having rent the screen of brambles and undergrowth, is now hovering at dead of night amid the clouds, Blimunda, Baltasar, his body weighing on hers, and both weighing on the earth, for at last they are here, having gone and returned. (José Saramago)
The son of Joseph and Mary was born, like any other child, covered with his mother's blood, dripping with mucus, and suffering in silence. He cried because they made him cry, and he will cry for this one and only reason. View quote
José Saramago
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. View quote
Solomon
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born. View quote
Solomon
At Athens and Athens alone, a new stamp of person was being born, neither baron nor yeoman, but a man of the city. A citizen. View quote
Steven Pressfield
The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. View quote
Steven Pressfield
For the student of visionary art the interesting fact is that an image comes first and takes up residence in the mind long before the artist has any notion why it is there or what it means. Whether visions come from some great reservoir of symbolic images which are eternally there (and if one examines the recurrence of images in history this proposition is not quite as crazy as it sounds) or whether they are due to buried memories, their obsessive power over an artist's mind, and their clear, compulsive emergence in his work depends on a mental condition that can come and go. When, for some reason, they no longer present themselves to the mind's eye, alive or clamoring to be born, the visionary artist has a hard time - dark days. This is particularly true if he has lost the habit of feeding his mind on the observation of nature. View quote
Kenneth Clark
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist. View quote
Lana Del Rey
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time. View quote
Edmund Clarence Stedman
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. View quote
Samuel Beckett
It is natural to die as to be born. (Francis Bacon)
Newton was born during Cromell's revolution in the troubled 1640s; he was eighteen at the Restoration in 1660; and he published the Principia during the intrigues which ended by bringing William of Orange to England in the revolution of 1688. These are the moments when the powerful or the forceful character feels the ferment of the times, when his thoughts quicken... View quote
Jacob Bronowski
I see my work, as being determined by the fact that I was born in 1936. View quote
Frank Stella
If all are born and live for the express purpose of learning to know God, and if the knowledge of God, in so far as it fails to produce this effect, is fleeting and vain, it is clear that all those who do not direct the whole thoughts and actions of their lives to this end fail to fulfil the law of their being. View quote
John Calvin
The voluntary spilling of semen outside of intercourse between man and woman is a monstrous thing. Deliberately to withdraw from coitus in order that semen may fall on the ground is doubly monstrous. For this is to extinguish the hope of the race and to kill before he is born the hoped-for offspring. View quote
John Calvin
Loyalty... is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation. View quote
Henry Steele Commager
There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given. View quote
Natalie Portman
There is at least a punky spark in my heart and it may blaze in this autumn gold, fanned by the King. Some of my grandfathers must have been born on a muirland for there is heather in me, and tinctures of bog juices, that send me to Cassiope, and oozing through all my veins impel me unhaltingly through endless glacier meadows, seemingly the deeper and danker the better. View quote
John Muir
You were born by his purpose and for his purpose. View quote
Rick Warren
An island-farm - broad seas of corn Stirred by the wandering breath of morn - The happy spot where I was born. View quote
Lewis Carroll
I was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire of light and commerce that the adults called the Golden Hour, for a reason I did not yet grasp. (Alastair Reynolds)
They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. View quote
Katherine Dunn
A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. View quote
Katherine Dunn
Yes, I own Kamal. Yet, he does not belong to me - he belongs to the world of cinema. It is often argued that had he been born abroad, he would have won the Oscar many times over. View quote
Kamal Haasan
Children are actually very sophisticated. They sleep in your bed for a reason. The child is born, it takes a look around, and thinks "Well this isn't quite what I'd hoped for. All these people are idiots... I wouldn't've have painted the house like this at all... But I've got to make the best of it. I've got to maximize my resources. So the key thing is to stop these people from having any more children." View quote
Dylan Moran