Born Quotes - page 3

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (Sylvia Plath)
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. View quote
Truman Capote
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. View quote
George Carlin
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. View quote
Alberto Moravia
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. View quote
William Barclay
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. View quote
Norman Mailer
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. View quote
Emil Cioran
I believe that every person is born with talent. View quote
Maya Angelou
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. View quote
Maya Angelou
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. View quote
Helen Hayes
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. (Orson Scott Card)
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. View quote
Willa Cather
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
"Murder is born in love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.” (Garden of Tortures) View quote
Octave Mirbeau
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. View quote
Wilson Mizner
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. View quote
James Baldwin
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. View quote
James Baldwin
I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Why was I born with such contemporaries? View quote
Oscar Wilde
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. View quote
Brendan Behan
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us... There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you... We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. View quote
Marianne Williamson
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. View quote
John Buchan
📖 Born Proverbs