Born Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Century Destiny Miscellaneous My destiny Sometimes Three Two
If I had one wish, I would say to be born in the '30s and be young in the '50s and '60s. It hurts… — Kevin Magnussen Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I wish I would have been told more often that I was right and nothing was wrong with me, that… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Some of us are fortunate enough to have known what we wanted to be since the day we were born. — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Destiny is not a matter of chance, but choice, not something to wish, but to attain. — 1note Copy Share Image
Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now,… — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image