Born Quotes
7034 quotes by 4319 authors
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Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.
— Kato Kiyomasa
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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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We can't go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. We cannot forever have children…
— John McCain
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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need. If…
— Jim Cymbala
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Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and…
— Valerie Plame
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
— Alan Kay
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Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a…
— Luigi Pirandello
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When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
— Judith Ellen Levy
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He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is a misfortune not…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
— James A. Baldwin
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To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens…
— James A. Baldwin
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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into…
— Paul Houston
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All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as…
— Chief Joseph
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I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter…
— James T. Rapier
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This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and…
— Paul Robeson
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Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It…
— James A. Baldwin
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