Born Quote by Kenzaburo Oe Download Open image “After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.” — Kenzaburo Oe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Children First child Firsts Handicapped Married Mentally Handicapped
When my first daughter was born, I was lousy. A really good dad but a lousy husband. I wasn't ready for it. — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Over a period of time, the midwife noticed that there were special souls being born across the land; babies that had old souls and… — Unathi Magubeni Copy Share Image
I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.' — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are. — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“Bird, hesitating, recalled a line from the English textbook he was reading with his students; a young American was speaking angrily: Are you kidding… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“In introducing himself, he had said, "I'm the father," and the doctors had winced. Because something else must have echoed in their ears- I'm… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“I thought about death and was gripped by feelings which choked my chest and made my throat dry, a sudden pushing and shoving in… — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“If I'm a monster then I want to be a real monster. I'll become a monster and explode.” — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. — Kenzaburo Oe 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
