Born Quotes - Page 33

• My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

  Kirk Douglas

  Kids, Poor, Advantage

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• It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

  Andrew Sullivan

  America, Tragedy, Resistance

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• I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Mean, White, People

  "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". Book by Mildred D. Taylor, 1976.

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• My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice.

  Fernando Torres

  Football, Son, Cities

  "Fernando Torres admits he did not care if Chelsea won or lost" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.

  Julia Roberts

  Dream, Baby, Parent

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• There's a seeker born every minute.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Minutes, Seekers

  Robert Anton Wilson (1995). “Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death”, New Falcon Publications

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• I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

  Isadora Duncan

  Diversity, Unity, Movement

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• Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the world'

  Pope Leo XIII

  Christian, Overcoming, Triumph

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• I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

  James Rosenquist

  Artist, Doe, Ability

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• And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.

  Gunther Schuller

  Hurt, Choices, May

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• Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

  Gautama Buddha

  Long, Water, Suffering

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• There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

  Gautama Buddha

  Would Be, Monk, Made

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• Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Stars, Loneliness, Book

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• One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Spirit, Prison

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.385, Penguin

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• When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Baby, Reading

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• I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Character, Trying, Research

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• India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Forever, India, Made

  Shashi Tharoor (1993). “The Great Indian Novel”, p.245, Arcade Publishing

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• When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

  Erin Wasson

  Girl, Curly Hair, Who I Am

  "Erin Wasson on Her Hair, Antique Shopping, and Cooking". Interview with Leah Melby Clinton, www.elle.com. September 20, 2012.

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• The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pride, Demon, Hours

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164”, p.642, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Girl, Wise, Mean

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• Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.

  Conan O'Brien

  Father, Beer, America

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• ...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

  Henri Nouwen

  Stories, World, Want

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• The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

  Billy Corgan

  Trying, Different, Way

  "Smashing Pumpkins". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.

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• I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

  John Zakour

  Men, Wings, Pops

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• I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste?

  J. D. McClatchy

  Morning, Eye, Heart

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