Born Quotes - Page 29

• Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.

  Barbara Holland

  Taverns, Revolution, Raised

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Thinking, Yale

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• No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

  Salman Rushdie

  Stories

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• Just be.  Don't try to be yourself, because you already are.  Balance your spirit and empower your gifts.  If it is in you and you can feel it, see it, and want to share it, then learn to understand it, not become it.  We are born with all the wisdom in the world; it's up to us to open the door inch by inch throughout life.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Being Yourself, Doors, Empowering

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• I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Rights, Wife

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “Living History”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Baseball, Fields, Feels

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• I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Conversation, Okay, Feels

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• If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are.  You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you.  You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mirrors, Perfect, Looks

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• No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

  Norman Douglas

  Men, Too Late, Great Men

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao. It flows through all things, inside and outside, and returns to the origin of all things. The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

  Laozi

  Mother, Men, Names

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• Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Democracy, Cameras, Digging

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• Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Ends, Dies

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• Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.

  Umberto Eco

  Grief, Joy, Feelings

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.458, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was not born to be forced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

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• To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

  Joan Baez

  Running, Brother, Eye

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• I'm an unbelievable designer. I don't know how I know and just do these things. I just start sketching and then I just know the colors and I always know the forecast. I know green and purple are going to be hot. I was born to be a designer. I worked hard to be a tennis player, I don't work hard to be a designer.

  Serena Williams

  Hard Work, Player, Color

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• Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Order, Use, World

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

  Bipasha Basu

  Laughing, Cynical, Being Positive

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• Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Christian, Powerful, Hate

  George Amos Dorsey (1931). “Man's own show: civilization”

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• We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Eye, Hands, Feet

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• Some people are born very far from home.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, People

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• I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

  Doyle Brunson

  Sports, Believe, Minutes

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• The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built up from nothing, from nobody. Age, beauty, talent, least of all talent, has nothing to do with it. We could make silk purses out of sows' ears every day of the week.

  Louis B. Mayer

  Stars, Ideas, Age

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• I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

  Philippe Petit

  Writing, World, Classical Music

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• The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Successful, Common Purpose, Leader

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