Famous Quotes & Sayings

You are born to your position, ... What do you know of struggle, of triumph?

Sathya Baba

You are born as human with the goal that you should not be born again.

Petrarch

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

We're very sensitive to everyone's concerns, even if the concerns are born of misunderstanding.

Darin Strauss

V. S. Pritchett was one of the most admired, fun, talked-about writers of the 20th century: he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his work with prose. He was born in 1900, wrote till he died in 1997, and has been tidily forgotten ever since. This is a real shame.

Paul O'Grady

I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.

Joanne Woodward

Well, I was born and raised in south Georgia and South Carolina, and I went to school in Louisiana. Nature is very much a part of life in those areas.

Grover Norquist

A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.

Mary Astell

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Jesse Jackson

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

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

Sophia Bush

I have pretty thick eyebrows, so I'm really grateful to Brooke Shields, the first time around, and now Cara Delevingne for making that such a thing. For those of us who were born that way, it's kind of nice.

Cesare Beccaria

Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until grandchildren are born

Isabella Bird

One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in which about a quarter of a million people live and, it may with truth be added, are born and die. This population is quite distinct in race from the land population of Canton, which looks down upon it as a pariah and alien caste.

Myles Munroe

I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.

Peter Jackson

I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

Oriana Fallaci

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

Oscar Isaac

I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

Paul Bloom

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

Patrick Chan

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.

Penny Marshall

I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.

Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

Yeardley Smith

You know, you are not born with a soul. You earn it with suffering, hard work and prayer. Which hopefully you did last night

Yeardley Smith

You know, you are not born with a soul. You earn it with suffering, hard work and prayer. Which hopefully you did last night

Rita Wilson

We're not sure about all of the names. We know a couple of them might not have been born here but lived here when they went to the war.

We are really trying to discover the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to Chiari. We do think Chiari is congenital, so it's something people are born with, but may not show symptoms until later.

Sarah Jones

I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.

Ellen Glasgow

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

Marilyn Monroe

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public, talent in privacy.

Sathya Baba

People are born for different tasks, but in order to survive every one requires the same nourishment; inner peace.

Parents are the child's most important teacher from the time they are born through high school.

William Blake

O! why was I born with a different face? / Why was I not born like the rest of my race?