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“It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.”

Enough Helping Dream Reality Beautiful Born Something Beautiful

Author:Ella Reeve Bloor

“No-one is born with perfect eyebrow.”

Eye Born Perfect Eyebrows

Author:Linda Evangelista

“A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.”

Firsts Long Stills Moments Causes Parent Born Grief Fire Son Foolish Superiors Latter Long Life Blazing

Author:Chanakya

“Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.”

Made Two Political Grows Born Class Doors Communication Members Majority Composition Admission

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.”

Humans Heart Self Spirit Song Speak Born Human Beings Alive Self Esteem Pride Self Love Happenings Strikes Esteem Uplifting Quests Entitled Human Spirit Greatest Love Popular Song

Author:Robert J. White

“The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.”

Children Women Born Struggle Fire Movement Aim Liberation Lap

Author:Velupillai Prabhakaran

“When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.”

Trying Three Father Born Week Birth Certificates Loopholes Birth Certificate

Author:Jackie Vernon

“Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?”

Heart Feelings Hands Names Born Secret Divine Lips Flames Cheeks Celestial Crimson

Author:Abraham Coles

“I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.”

Mother Literature Sides Born Known My Family Ohio Cincinnati Ohio

Author:Kenneth Koch

“When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.”

Source: The world is learning compassion

“I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.”

Born Theater Painter

Author:Vincente Minnelli

“Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.”

Want Hands Values Born Progress New Work

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.”

Want Born Loss Beauty Gains Combination Limbo

Author:Cornelia Parker

“You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.”

Born Ethics Intelligence

Author:Massad Ayoob

“Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.”

America Heaven Causes Born Land Hero Band Hail Columbia

Author:Joseph Hopkinson

“It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.”

Would Be Born Freedom Grass Reasonable Sheep

Author:Emile Faguet

“With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.”

Ifs Writing Has Beens Song Born Compare Lennon

Author:Noel Gallagher

“We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.”

Born Effort Focus Skills Constant Initials Upgrading

Author:Robert Genn

“Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.”

Kind Mother Born Virtue Humility Humble Obedience Reverence Modesty Meekness

Author:Thomas of Villanova

“Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.”

Art Made House Born Musician Designer Iron Progressive Great Art Acid Colourful

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.”

People Knows Children Doe Kids Grows Born Growing Up Habit Prodigies

Author:Will Rogers

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.”

Men God Faith Born Christianity Grace Broken Live By Grace Of God Glue Mending

Book:The great god Brown: The fountain, The moon of the Caribbees, and other plays

Source: The great god Brown: The fountain, The moon of the Caribbees, and other plays

“Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)”

Men Spiritual Spirit Water Born Grace Holy Saint Flesh Kingdoms Holy Spirit Spiritual Life Kingdom Of God Baptism Born Again Regeneration

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.”

Ifs Running Mother Courses Father Born Blood Mets Diversity Raised Folks Track Boat Indian Territory Ancestor Mother And Father Born And Raised Right Track Cherokee Mayflower

Author:Will Rogers

“Winners are born, Champions are made.”

Made Born Winner Champion Softball Champions Are Made

Author:Robert Falcon Scott

“Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward”

Giving Born Dying Eating Rewards Companion Sacraments Ransom

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.”

Mean Littles Born Levels Worry Organization Fellows Productions Entertainment Mediums Liberation Dimensions Mice Cartoon Expanding Animation Extending Disney Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.”

Born Rooms Dying Died Damn Hotel Last Words Hotel Rooms Famous Last Words Dying Last Words Funny Famous Last Words

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.”

Moments Government Fall Politics Born Loses Power Shining

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.”

Men Born Realising Born To Be Free

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.”

Play Wanted Born Player Baseball Convinced Baseball Player

Author:Roberto Clemente

“In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.”

Way Two Born Pittsburgh I Am Thankful Two Lives

Author:Roberto Clemente

“The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God”

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“No more than I was to be born.”

Author:Spartacus

“Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.”

Ifs Mind Born Limits Capacity Sticks Persistence Expansion Valve

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.”

Firsts Moving Form Born Generations Groups Feet Minutes Ocean Mass Spring Wings Assuming Glasses Wave Breathing Realms Acquire Unseen Mud Caves Limbs Pierce Vegetation Fins Organic Life

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?”

Should Born Air Land Brother Breathe Civil War Soil Brothers And Sisters

Author:Nathan Bedford Forrest

“Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.”

Ifs Years Children Grows Born Imagination Exercise Blessed Cease Muscles Pale Vivid Vivid Imagination Children Imagination Magic Kingdom

Author:Walt Disney

“The day you were born, it was already written down the day you're gonna check out. Now, I'm not gonna throw myself under a truck, but I'm not gonna worry about when I die. I'm ready to move on when that day comes.”

Moving Dies Born Worry Written Ready Checks Truck Ready To Move On

Author:Carroll Shelby

“Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.”

States Inspiration Spirit Opportunity Born Citizens Independent Oregon

Author:Tom McCall

“Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.”

Should Trying Heart Children Moments Artist Born Loneliness Broken Happy Children Happy Moments

Book:Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

Source: Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

“When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.”

Born Poor Draws Vegetarian Vegan Desks Mice Garage Kansas Mickey

Author:Walt Disney

“A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.”

Men Time Born Birth Rivers Ships Breasts Wanderers

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there”

Way Long Home Born Justice Adopted Long Way

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after.”

Men Young Born Ever After

Author:Taliesin

“Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.”

Kind Inspiration Motivation Born Knowing Storytelling

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.”

“A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.”

Men May Made Born Birth Breeders

Author:William Wrigley, Jr.

“And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.”

Firsts Earth Voice Born Common Air Cry

Author:Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.”

World Song Born Rooms Fiction Records Needed Computer Phones Changing The World Tied

Author:Steve Jobs