Born Quotes

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

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.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

I wasn't born a superstar.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

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

Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

I was born to travel and write verse.

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

When desire dies, fear is born.

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

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

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

No one is born hating others.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't see the borders.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.