I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in Beverly Hills, but I was born with a great deal of self-worth.
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It’s a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
It’s a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or ‘chosen’ or feel they have an entitlement… be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college’s incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
My mom, well, she’s half Greek, half German-Italian; born in England. She’s just a nomad. She loves Middle Eastern style, Indian style, so much so that she ended up having Indian babies.
I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.
No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.
I don’t care what town you’re born in, what city, what country. If you’re a child, you are curious about your environment. You’re overturning rocks. You’re plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you’re doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
I was born with Kallmann syndrome. I have never complained about it, as I can’t do anything to change it – and I wouldn’t have acquired the voice that I have.
We can say with certainty – or 90% probability – that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
Gay people are made and not born.
I’m actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years later when things were starting to look bad.
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
Life on the planet is born of woman.
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education – but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over to Canada as a refugee, and years later, we were able to join him.
I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.
I’m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.
Christians are made, not born.
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.
I was born with a romantic nature, and I’ll carry it to my grave.
I am born and brought up in Mumbai. I have grown up watching Hindi films. So I belong here, I feel.
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
All my life I’ve been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother’s people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
I am a hardcore Bihari boy. I am born and brought up in Bihar, and for me, ethnicity is not a problem and is inbuilt in me.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Me, my heart and my soul will always be a fighter. I’m not comfortable with saying, ‘I’m done. I quit. I give up.’ That’s the way I am, and that’s the way I always will be. From the day I was born to the day I die, I am a fighter!
I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from the Sweeney Watershed, which meant we essentially drank acid mine drainage.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
It doesn’t matter what the colour of your skin is, your sexual preference, the region where you were born, your gender. We’re all equal… We can’t take certain minorities and think they have super powers and are different from the others.
I was not born to be prime minister, and I’m not going to stay here until the end of my life. I’m too young for that.
Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
I was born in Karachi, where my father used to work in the sales department of a pharmaceutical company. The nature of his job required him to travel, so we moved to Athens, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Riyadh and then went to Manchester during the Gulf War, moving back to Lahore closer to my father’s retirement.
Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.
The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it’s not equal. We may have been created equal, but we’re not born equal. It’s a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.
My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
Social class has worked for years. Born into the right family, go to the right schools, even if you’re not super bright to start with, you’ll turn out bright. You go to the right university, you get the right job, you have the right connections, you’ll make it to the top. Job done, very efficient.
I am born to play badminton and can’t think of anything else.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.
Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about ‘innatality’ – about having not yet been born – yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
