Born Quotes - Page 31

• Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

  Mark Cuban

  Passionate, One Thing

  "Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort". blogmaverick.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Genius must be born, it can't be taught.

  John Dryden

  Genius, Taught

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• Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

  Os Guinness

  Born Free, Worthy

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• The months before my son was born,
  I used to yell from night to morn,
  'Whatever it is, I'm against it!
  No matter what it is or who commenced it,
  I'm against it!'

  Groucho Marx

  Son, Night, Matter

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• Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Doe, Firsts

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• No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Nice, Philosophical, Missing

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

  Mark Twain

  Philosophy, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.

  Mark Nepo

  Order, Facts, Needs

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Mar 27, 2015

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• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Exercise, Thinking

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• Doubting things go ill often hurts more
  Than to be sure they do; for certainties
  Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
  The remedy then born.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Past, Knowing

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.52

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• God rose up from His throne and said to demon powers tormenting the sinless Son of God, 'Let Him go.' Then the resurrection power of Almighty God went through hell and filled Jesus. .. He was resurrected from the dead - the first born-again man.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Son, Men

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• French fries. I have been obsessed with them since I was born. I like big, big steak fries, curly fries, seasoned fries - any kind!

  Corbin Bleu

  Kind, Obsessed, Steak

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• Since the release of my single 'Born To Try' I have been so busy completing the album as well as my busy Neighbours schedule I have not had much spare time. When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

  Delta Goodrem

  Home, Family And Friends, Trying

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• Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.

  Charles Capps

  Jesus, Church, Pits

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• Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

  Mark Knopfler

  Years, Scotland, Firsts

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• If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

  C. Wagner

  Cities, Individual, Born Again

  C. Peter Wagner (2006). “The Church in the Workplace: How God's People Can Transform Society”, p.43, Gospel Light Publications

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• Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they assigned that Jesus almost certainly was not born of a virgin, did not think of himself as the Son of God, and did not see his purpose as dying for the sins of the world. .. I also found the claim that Jesus and Christianity were the only way of salvation to be troublesome.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Jesus, Reading

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• Both my parents were a tremendous influence on me. My father's influence came from - he decided well, probably before we were born that as he put it, 'I'm not going to have any kids who are country club bums.'

  Charles Koch

  Country, Father, Kids

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.

  Toks Olagundoye

  My Family, Raised, Still Life

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Powerful, Class, People

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• We all get out, maybe for longer than we wish, because we all pass this mortal coil more or less and so we certainly get a chance to experience it again, and we've experienced it before we were born. So it's more or less our natural place of being, unless you believe that the only time you're conscious is when you're alive.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Believe, Wish, Alive

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.

  Grace Paley

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.

  Krishna Das

  People, Germany, Littles

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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• I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Sadness, Simple

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• We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Children, Taken, School

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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