Born Quotes - Page 9

• I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Journey, Ends

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• f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

  Alan Bennett

  Lines, Guinness, Instance

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think children are born with this message, and it shouldn't be taken away from them. I hope they walk away with it after seeing the film, and adults too. And I notice it also with myself, because the older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

  Brittany Murphy

  Children, Believe, Taken

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope.

  Peter Jackson

  Dragons, Chinese, Fans

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Lying, Men

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• Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

  Mother Angelica

  Pain, Eye, Suffering

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1983 - ).

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• It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Prayer, Men, Leader

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• ... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.

  Thucydides

  Opportunity, Giving, Innovation

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• The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

  W. H. Auden

  Language, Poet

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• I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Atheist, Thinking

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• We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

  Corliss Lamont

  Fate, Doe, Decree

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• Tough times don't last but tough people do.
  No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.
  Men are born to succeed, not fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, People, Tough Times

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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

  Dee Hock

  Struggle, Years, Age

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• Leaders are not born, they're made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Discipline, Effort

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• Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot know the truth for yourself or that you cannot achieve yourself spiritually without being tied to a temple or church. You were not born a spiritual slave. You are the authority who distinguishes what is true and untrue, spiritual and unspiritual.

  Hua Ching Ni

  Spiritual, Church, Temples

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• First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Practice, Firsts

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• It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

  Stevie Wonder

  Black, Could Have Been, Has Beens

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• For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born.

  Marshall Fritz

  Educational, Independent, Government

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• Between urine and filth we are born.

  Saint Augustine

  Filth

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• To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  America, Homeless, Fugitive

  "Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue" by Barbara Ehrenreich, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2011.

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• Empowerment is a thing that you earn over time - as you overcome obstacles, learn, and accomplish things, you become empowered. Empowerment is not a thing that you are born with and that the parent's job is to get out of the way of. Empowerment is a thing that you earn. And some of that is that you become empowered by knowing that you were disempowered or by knowing that there were tremendous limits on what you were able to do, as a young person.

  John Roderick

  Jobs, Knowing, Parent

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• It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

  Lord Dunsany

  Hours, Insects

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories”, p.9, Booklassic

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• There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.

  Muddy Waters

  Mean, Light, Ems

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• When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Men, Thinking, Feminist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Growing Up, Kids, Men

  "'It’s Hucking Yourself Downhill Super-Fast'". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. December 30, 2013.

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