Famous Quotes & Sayings

Loren Eiseley

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

Os Guinness

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

Emile M. Cioran

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

Henri Poincare

Mathematicians are born, not made.

Helen Thomas

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

Marjane Satrapi

Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.

George Will

Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French.

Judith Jamison

At 10, I could walk down the street and see over everybody's head. I don't remember being little or having to look up at people. I think I was born 5 feet 10. It's not that I felt especially tall. I was wondering when everybody else was going to catch up.

That motto was born out of telling the kids that we (the coaches) can talk about X's and O's all day, but they have to make their mind up that they want to get it done. I can't always call the plays that are going to work. Sometimes the kids have to take it upon themselves. No matter what it takes, no matter what we have to do, just get it done.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Russell Simmons

I'm born into the cycle of giving that we're all born into, and I recognize it. So just because something is a good business, I'm not a business guy. I'm a creative guy.

Hooman Majd

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

As a result of both these events, thousands fewer puppies and kittens will be born in this area.

Mark Twain

People born to be hanged are safe in water.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

O fortunatam natam me consule Romam! - O happy Rome, born when I was consul!

Charles Dickens

Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?

Harry Shearer

The music was born on the pianos of the front parlor of the brothels.

Adhering to this view these lost souls, with small intellect and cruel deeds, are born as enemies for the destruction of the world.

The one in whose control are horses, cows, villages, all chariots; the one who has caused to be born the sun, the dawn; the one who is the waters' leader, he, O people, is Indra.

Mike Hargrove

The old truism that you live and die with your pitching has been borne out the last two nights, and really the whole series. We got two really well pitched games, which we won, and (Tuesday) night was something I'd like to forget. We'll take it. If you take two out of three from the White Sox, that's pretty special.

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Darin Erstad

Are you kidding me? He's the face of the Angels. That would be awesome. If he's healthy, you know what you're going to get. The guy's a born hitter.

Rodney Crowell

Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher, ... In modern buzz-word speak, he was the inventor of 'What people think of me is none of my business.' So I got really hooked on him.

Mick Ralphs

English people are so boring, they tend to stay where they were born and never go anywhere... 'cause England isn't that big anyway.

Jake Johnson

First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.

Fred Astaire

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born ,

Seeing the parades made me feel like I was finally home. But at the same time, I was jarred by this sadness that the city I was born in and will die in will never be the place I knew before the hurricane.

Ryan has a God given talent. He's got natural pace and balance, something you're born with,

Sahara. You see kids jumping in the water and figure it must be safe. They were born and raised in it, but our people could have gotten terribly ill.

Lorin Maazel

Salzburg was where he was born and where he was rejected.

John Battelle

Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer.