Born Quotes

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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,… — Thomas Jefferson
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life… — Plutarch
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious… — Samuel Johnson
The moment you're born you're done for. — Arnold Bennett
When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!" — Rodney Dangerfield
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. — Robert Breault
When a child is born the mother also is born again. — Gilbert Parker
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight. — John Steinbeck
When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime". — Kate Moss
"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead" — Ayn Rand
To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to… — Carlos Castaneda
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create… — Josiah Stamp
I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying. — Dian Fossey
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality… — Jonas Salk
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by… — Robert Hooke
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible… — Thomas Hobbes
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves… — Emile Durkheim
Freedom, the first-born of science. — Thomas Jefferson
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to… — Ayn Rand

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