Home / Topics / Born Quotes

Born Quotes

Browse 8141 quotes about Born.

Born Quotes

“Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?”

Dies Born Originals Copies

Book:The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran

Source: The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran

“Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.”

“Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.”

Political Night Politics Easy Born Steps Darkness Hell Doors Labor Day And Night Brightness Descent

Author:Virgil

“Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.”

World Littles Soul Body Song Dies Left Born Love Is Behinds Messages Stones Moved Fruit Greed Seeds Soil Milk Reverence Left Behind Shifting Lives Of Others

Book:Island of the World: A Novel

Source: Island of the World: A Novel

“I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.”

Heart Two Humanity Born Laughed Destroying Devoted Two Hearts

Book:The Moth Diaries

Source: The Moth Diaries

“It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.”

Way Born Interesting Theory 1960s Countryside Cottages

Author:Richard Rogers

“Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.”

Ifs Evil Enjoy Born Bears Blessing Yesterday This Day Morrow

Book:The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

“Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.”

Born Racism Consequence Slavery

Book:The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery

Source: The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery

“When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.”

Firsts Children Born Vengeance

Author:Bob Marshall

“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion who have handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the firstborn of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the firstborn of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.”

Men Firsts Children Christian Born Animal Numbers Lord Special Punishment Abortion Dedicated Testament Vengeance Old Testament Handicaps

Author:Bob Marshall

“In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.”

Men Firsts Christian Born Animal Lord Special Punishment Dedicated Testament Old Testament

Author:Bob Marshall

“There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantages. The reason is that we once had an estate before we came here, and were obedient; more or less, to the laws that were given us there. Those who were faithful in all things there received greater blessings here, and those who were not faithful received less”

Men Reason Law Given Black Born White Greater Blessing Advantage All Things Reason Why Faithful One Man Estates Disadvantages Obedient Priesthood

Book:Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings

Source: Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings

“With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.”

Knows World Book Self Dream Desire Term Born Consciousness Standards New World Self Conscious Self Consciousness Standards Set

Author:Peter Abrahams

“I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.”

Home Remember Born Tears Someday Hospitals Hospitality Chloe

Author:Candice Bergen

“I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.”

Age Romance Wish Born Half Design Interior Design

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.”

Ifs Men May Doe Stories Song Fall Born Team Hero Sorrow Losing Glory Strive Falling In Love Leaving Defeat Sweetest Saddest Triumphant

Book:The Boys of Summer

Source: The Boys of Summer

“All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.”

“You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a worthless newborn. And the essential value that was born into brand-new-baby you can never be extinguished. This means that even if you think you're being absolutely honest, believing yourself to be anything other than astonishing, incomparable, and infinitely precious makes you a habitual liar.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Mean Shows Values Born Honest Baby Essentials Brands Liars Show Me Worthless Astonishing Priceless Habitual Nursery Brand New Newborn Lovable Incomparable New Baby

Author:Martha Beck

“A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.”

Years Humans Made Self Together Lasts Lying Born Four Generations Middle Creation Billions Ties Complexity Cosmos Thread Arcs Smack Trajectory Culmination Techno Bios

Author:Kevin Kelly

“He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.”

World Moments Care Born Take Care Obedience Present Moment

Book:The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.

Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.

“Champions get up! When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something! Champions get up! Focus your mind, pull yourself together. If you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on! You are a champion. You are more than a conqueror. Keep the faith. Cry if you must. You are still here. God is not through with you yet. You were born to win. Champions get up! You are a champion. You have GREATNESS within you!”

Ifs Mind Stills Ends Together Winning Born Focus Cry Greatness Get Up Ties Champion Within You Rope Knots Conqueror Keep The Faith Greatness Within Born To Win

Author:Les Brown

“My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.”

Beautiful Born Love Is Violence Tree Painting Eating Violent Landscape Scream Insects Fear Of Death Parts Of Life Mosquitoes Maybe Love Beautiful Landscapes

Author:Francis Bacon

“We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.”

Way Certain Born Challenges Deals Keys Degrees Discovering Key To Success Innate

Author:Les Brown

“Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.”

Christian Grows Born Degrees Instant

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

“The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.”

Writing Mind Humans Song Born Wonderful Human Mind Wonderful Things

Author:Roger Miller

“Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.”

Joy Grows Born Flower Word Of God

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.”

People Has Beens Dies Fighting Born Battle Innovation Significant Committees Messy

Author:Rands

“I am not born to just become an actor”

Author:Salman Khan

“I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.”

Character Spirit Born Kings One Day Lucky Expectations Built Foundation Entitlement So Lucky Entitlement Programs

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker”

Form Turns Jesus Heaven Christ Born Jesus Christ Rose Virgins Cheated Crackers

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God; the heaven born new creature will come to life in you, which alone knows and enjoys the things of God, and has his daily food of gladness in that manifold blessed, and blessed, which Christ preached on the mount.”

Knows Self Christian Heaven Enjoy Christ Born Religious Creatures Blessed Denial Gladness Manifold

Book:Selections from the Works of ... W. Law, making a guide to rest, in belief of the Gospel, and in obedience to the Divine Law

Source: Selections from the Works of ... W. Law, making a guide to rest, in belief of the Gospel, and in obedience to the Divine Law

“I was born by Caesarian section . . . but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window.”

Humor Funny House Born Justice Window Sections

Author:Steven Wright

“Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.”

Men Way Country Science Lying Born Differences Knowing Divine Kings Exercise England Notion Educated Mathematician Our Thoughts Facility Virginia Enquiry

Author:John Locke

“What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?”

Should Stills Death Dies Born Cry Remains Born To Die

Author:Francis Bacon

“For years and years I have done the work I was born for.”

Years Done Born

Author:James Larkin

“Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.”

Humans States Language Parent Born Natural Human Beings United United States Citizens Constitution Sovereignty Allegiance Owing

Author:John Bingham

“Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.”

Way Believe Kind Might Care Water Born Common Air Mankind Property Commonwealth

Book:The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works

Source: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works

“I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.”

Ifs World Mind Humans Littles Persons States Seems Hate Dies Born Building Creating Capable Killing Pity Destroying Pitiful If You Love Me Born To Die

Book:Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

Source: Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

“I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.”

“I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.”

Thinking Matter Would Be Born Wonderful Died Catholic Meetings Extremes Fantastic Catholicism Glitter Quaker Absolution

Author:Kate Atkinson

“The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.”

Book Born Air Particular Intellectual Shadow Property Lawyer Afternoon Conferences November Intellectual Property

Author:Michael Gruber

“Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.”

Stars Born Forget Violence Angry Revenge Fragile Retribution Lest We Forget

Author:Sting

“My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.”

Parent Born Blood England Grandparent Great Grandparents

Author:Brian McDermott

“Above these universal themes Truth Will Set U Free is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.”

Knows Men Persons Song Born Gay Universal Injustice Theme Lgbt Born Gay Universal Themes

Author:Corey Hart

“To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!”

Humans Born Mankind Duty Claims Guilt Track Dues Homage Forfeit Deviation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.”

People Thinking Artist Born Luck Surroundings Mixtures

Author:Francis Bacon

“Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.”

Moments Hope Born Hoping For The Best

Author:Michael Moore

“I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.”

Knows Believe Play I Believe Born My Own Existence Consciousness Quality Creativity Constant Spontaneity

Book:Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

“To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God.”

Self Order Jesus Given Christ Born Mystery Son Jesus Christ Crosses Died Naked Abandon Halls Calvary Bethlehem

Author:John Wesley

“Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.”

Source: The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran