I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies have always been with the struggling mass.
There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.
I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don’t remember it long.
I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
I am not chowkidar. I was born a Shiv Sainik, so I am sainik.
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
I’ll always represent Canada. I was born here, and my parents chose to immigrate here. There are so many things I don’t see in other countries, I see here. I love having the Maple Leaf behind me.
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.
I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would hear bachata, on another corner some salsa, and of course there was hip-hop and R&B all over the place. So for me, it is very organic to have these combinations.
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We’d skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
My mother is a tall woman – as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
People aren’t born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
By ancestry, I was born to rule.
When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn’t get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.
I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don’t think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.
I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
I was born in Florida. My first political campaign was as a field director for George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988.
No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It’s the same for your parents as it is for you – what’s happening in your body dictates everything.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin my poetry workshops with students because at times, poetry can seem like this dead art form for old white men who just seem like they were born to be old, like, you know, Benjamin Button or something.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
I think of my drawing style like handwriting: it’s a mix of whatever handwriting you’re born with, plus bits and pieces you’ve pilfered from other people around you.
Being born was the most influential thing that’s ever happened to me, for myself.
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.
I wasn’t born an actress, but I was certainly born dramatic!
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don’t use English much.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.
Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it’s because my son raps, and he’s better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I’m saying?
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
Military leaders aren’t made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
I was born to be a teacher, and I’ll die a teacher.
We’re products of this world we were born into. We all battle our own demons. Everyone is troubled in the dark, but, please just stop & think about the babies. They’re gonna be here long after we leave.
Rock was born in the South, so saying ‘Southern rock’ is like saying ‘rock rock.’
No one is born believing in harmful stereotypes. They are learned over time. The good news is they can be unlearned.
I wasn’t born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
I have been blessed to be born and brought up in Uttarakhand, in the midst of all that snow, plus pure and divine environment.
