Best Born Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 34

Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10

“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.”

Men Action Born Decision Principles Instinct Decision Making Freak Transcending

Book:The Revolution of Hope

Source: The Revolution of Hope

“Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”

Men Born Independent Printing Press Secret Society Born To Be Free

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.”

Wells Heart Born Prayer Knees Strings Bows Steel Stubborn Babe

Book:The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare,: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play,

Source: The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare,: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play,

“O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!”

Heart Art Soul States Helping Black Born Struggle Angel Knees Engaged Strings Repentance Bows Steel Stubborn Wretched Bosoms Babe

Book:Hamlet: Revised Edition

Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition

“Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.”

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“It is well to be born either a king or a fool.”

Wells Born Fool Kings

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Instead of being a static one-time event, bonding is a process, a dynamic and continuous one. Thus, a reciprocal, loving attachment is still realizable even when early contact is delayed--as it is for many mothers and their prematurely born infants, or when illness of either the newborn or the mother intervenes.”

Stills Mother Process Born Events Illness Contact Attachment One Time Infant Static Bonding Newborn Delayed Reciprocal

Author:Julius Segal

“Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.”

Men Way Wells Looks Littles Dies Women Born Loses Baby Flow Rivers Streams Farms Jerk Waterfalls

Author:Nunnally Johnson

“Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.”

Dies Father Born Boys Darkness Sun Creation Seven Flames Womb Horns Mothering My Boys

Book:Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories

Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories

“If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.”