Top 770 Born Quotes

Belgium is half French-speaking and half Flemish, and I was born on the French side. So we spoke it a lot – like, in kindergarten, it was almost all French. But then I moved to New Zealand when I was 10, where we obviously spoke English all the time, so I lost the French a little bit.

Boldness isn’t something you’re born with; you either choose it or you don’t.

I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn’t even think I was especially pretty.

We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

You would have to be born with a gene that doesn’t allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.

The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.

True Yankees are born, not made.

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

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.

I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

I was born in Japan and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was reading manga, and I read ‘Death Note’ in real time in Japanese.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

I do think that some people are born as old souls.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

I’m not a born writer, and I don’t enjoy writing.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that’s where I was born. I’ve always wanted to wrestle.

Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I’m unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I’m angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I’m very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

I sometimes fee like the spirit of the past resurrected… After all, didn’t cultural studies emerge somewhere at that moment when I first met Raymond Williams or in the glance I exchanged with Richard Hoggart? In that moment, cultural studies was born. It emerged full grown from my head!

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather’s house and watched the planes go over.

I was a scared kid… I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else’s lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

Growing up, I wish I hadn’t tried so hard to fit in. I’d tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it’s beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It’s tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a ‘fresh’ brain – one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.

I was shaped by a pit environment and the Second World War. My playground was on the pit tip at Clay Cross and I grew up with that mining background. My father was a miner and my granddad was a miner, and I would say three out of ten on the street where I was born were working in the pits.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother’s a black woman, South African Xhosa woman… and my father’s Swiss, from Switzerland.

I’ve never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine’s Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine’s Day. I said no.

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.

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.

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don’t know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

It’s great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn’t start off so great it’s not that big a deal: everybody’s baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What’s the story we’re trying to tell?

I was born in Germany and grew up immersed in international school communities. I was in the German bilingual track, spent a few years in rural Canada, and then went to the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

‘Born this Way’ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

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.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though I was born in Cyprus, my parents were American, and so I was an outsider in the land of my birth.