Born Quotes · Page 114

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

— Jaime Harrison

“You cannot choose the womb that houses you but you can determine the tomb that takes you home.”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

— Russell Means

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

— Aeschylus

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

— Anonymous

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

— David Rockefeller

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

— Irvin S. Cobb

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

— Sam Cooke

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

— Saint Augustine

Born a miner's daughter, Alice Bacon's experiences as a teacher at an interwar secondary modern put her on a mission to transform…

— Rachel Reeves

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

“An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly…

— Marge Piercy

I wore the gold for some reasons. One, as a Christian.When Jesus was born wise men bring him gold.No wise man brought…

— Mr. T

I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when…

— Jan Morris

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but…

— Cynthia Ozick

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was…

— Jim Lovell

Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and…

— Alan Moore

We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight…

— Rosemary Mahoney

She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Every baby born unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come due in twenty years with interest, an anger that must find…

— Marge Piercy

The country you're born in is where your passport comes from. No, not according to Donald Trump! No, not at all. I…

— John Lydon

During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it.…

— Anonymous

When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another…

— Lurlene McDaniel

The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was…

— Mona Charen

I will do anything for Guillermo del Toro, if he asked me. I would give him my first-born child.

— Robert Kazinsky

I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.

— Bobby Gould

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

— Pico Iyer

Listen, you can't just come in to boxing and be a world champion. You've got to be born with it.

— Adrien Broner

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years…

— Groucho Marx

Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.

— Nancy Tillman

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

— Lisa Loeb

No matter what sign you were born under, everybody else's horoscope will be more fun than yours.

— Teresa Bloomingdale

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

— Thom Yorke

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore...

— Joseph Brodsky

I was born in the Chinese year of the rooster, so maybe that explains my affinity with chickens.

— Adriano Zumbo

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

— Dr. Seuss

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

— Hakeem Olajuwon

It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.

— Diana Gabaldon