Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frances Burnett

If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

Dario Fo

I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could not actually invent.

Joss Whedon

I had this extraordinary world I helped create, with this cast I felt were the most extraordinary people I'd worked with, who were born to play these parts,

I'm very proud of this gold medal. My son was born on Monday, and it is obvious that I will name him 'Helsinki.

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.

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.

Benjamin Franklin

A man is not completely born until he be dead.

Frederick Turner

American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came stark and strong and full of life out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.

Johnny Damon

They hate to see players leave here. People around here are born to like the Red Sox.

Clint Black

It was for (my dad), and for me, and for all the people out there who really like the honky-tonk sound, and it was born out of a resistance to complacency,

Carlo Ancelotti

It was a victory born more out of strength than quality, which is rare for us.

Before doing 'Midnight's Children,' I didn't really have a chance to explore my Indian side. The Indian side of my heritage was always present, but it did not particularly define my identity. Being English was more an identity-defining status. I was born and brought up in London. Yes, my father is Parsi.

Kim Campbell

Canada's first Prime Minister sought, unsuccessfully, to give women the vote. Today, a century after his passing, a woman stands before you as Prime Minister of Canada. Canada's first Prime Minister also sought, successfully, to bring British Columbia into Confederation. Today, I stand before you as Canada's first Prime Minister born and raised in British Columbia.

Ernest Hollings

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

Erin Hunter

CinderHeart: You’re the one that changed every thing. LoinBlaze: No. This was all decided before I was born.

Fiona Apple

Divas are not made, they are born.

Helen Keller

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

Cassandra Clare

Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.

Jenna Marbles

If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.

Dan Hill

In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.

Hollywood, where an intrigue and a victim are born every time two people meet.

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

E. B. White

He's legally blind, born like that, wears those Coke-bottle glasses.

J. I. Packer

The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.

He's really not the most gifted of the guys. He's not born with special ability. He has to work real hard.

Gary Johnson

I told you she was small. When I got her last year and took her down here ... everyone thought she had just been born she was so small. I had a tough time getting someone small enough to get on her.

Solomon Ortiz

In the early 1990s, a number of Rio Grande Valley children were born with neural tube defects, a very high concentration for any area.

William Morris

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?

Robbie Robertson

Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do.