Born Quotes

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Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they… — Sydney Schanberg
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go… — Clarence Day
Every man is an impossibility until he is born. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy… — John Cheever
Modesty died when clothes were born. — Mark Twain
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next… — Maria Montessori
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the… — William Shakespeare
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and… — Henry David Thoreau
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. — James Boswell
You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin. — Joe Orton
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected. — W. S. Gilbert
We are all born; some remain so. — Samuel Beckett
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion.… — Richard Dawkins
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. — Herb Caen
If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. — Jerry Falwell
I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying… — Tori Amos
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality. — William Wordsworth
I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel. — Robert Breault

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