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Born Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at…
- ...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous…
- All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
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- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was… — Margaret Atwood
- Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you… — Richard Bach
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon