Before I Was Born Quotes

#1. No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.

Cynthia Asquith

#3. I feel like I was born the day my kids were and that my life before was only there to gain wisdom for them. The point is you do your best. Your very best every day. You do it and you do it for them!

Drew Barrymore

#4. My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive.

Lindsay Duncan

#5. CinderHeart: You're the one that changed every thing.
LoinBlaze: No. This was all decided before I was born.

Erin Hunter

#6. Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

Seth Gabel

#7. He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.

John Wesley

#8. I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

Groucho Marx

#9. I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.

Ben Stiller

#10. Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.

Naoki Higashida

#11. I am a weapon made of flesh, a sword covered in skin. I was born to kill a king, to end a reign of terror before it can truly begin.

Victoria Aveyard

#12. I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.

Daniel Woodrell

#13. I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.

Enoch Powell

#14. Death scared me because I feared nothingness. If I had been nothing before I was born, then I could imagine that I would be nothing once I died.

Rachel Reiland

#15. I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.

Christian Louboutin

#16. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.

Roger Ebert

#17. I thought this life of thoughtful liberalism was my birthright, too. Before I understood that my generation was to be born in interesting times.

Maureen F. McHugh

#18. I was so tired of fighting. Tired of hurting. Tired of the guilt that never released me, and the regrets that could not be changed. I didn't want this life. They're were only so many times I could hear that I should never have been born, before I wished it to be true.

Rebecca Donovan

#19. The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was.

Bill Kaulitz

#20. You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.'
'Are you saying I have no choice?'
'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.

Anthony Horowitz

#21. That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Shimon Peres

#22. I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me.

Sonu Nigam

#23. Yes, Dad collared me before I was even born. Nevertheless, he made me the one in authority of the collar and myself.

Jazz Feylynn

#24. After you were born, someone turned on a tap. At first it was only a drip, a black drip, and I felt it as sadness. I had felt sad before ... who hasn't ? I knew what it was like. But I didn't know that it would come like that, for no reason. I lived with it for weeks.

Jerry Pinto

#25. You should visit the Palatine. It's at the top of that hill ... "
"I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born."
"Yes, who was emperor back then?

David Nicholls

#26. I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

John Malkovich

#27. That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thought of going away before they got up and coming back after they were in bed was intolerable.

Louise Fletcher

#28. Their country! There you are. Their filthy lies are all over you already. I was born here. My father was born here and so was my grandfather and his father before him. And then they come, they come and take it, steal it and call it theirs.

Americo Paredes

#29. I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

Tig Notaro

#30. I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

Mary Cheney

#31. I testify that Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem, was and is the Only Begotten of the Father, the Lamb of God. He chose from before the foundations of the earth to be your Savior, my Savior, and the Savior of all we will ever know or meet.

Henry B. Eyring

#32. I have no issue with Elissa. She's a fantastic stage manager, and we've worked together before. In fact, a million years ago we used to be good friends. Back when I still thought her brother was born of a human mother and not spawned straight from Satan's asshole.

Leisa Rayven

#33. 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

#34. I'll be dead after I die, and I was dead before I was born. Life is a break from death. You can't be dead all the time.

Hallgrimur Helgason

#35. Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

Danny DeVito

#36. My real mom died when I was born - hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to
me, which has never been one of my favorite memories - and Dad married Denise before I'd turned a year. Without even asking my opinion on the
matter. Denise and I never really clicked.

Darynda Jones

#37. My name is Dylan simply because my parents did not know before I was born if I would be a boy or a girl, and Dylan was a name that worked in both cases.

Dylan Penn

#38. Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#39. For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

Empedocles

#40. I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Robert Powell

#41. I was born at the age of five. I know this because I don't remember anything else before that.

Michaela McGuire

#42. The mother I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.

Adrienne Rich

#43. As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

Eugene Jarecki

#44. My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

Zachary Cole Smith

#45. My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

Kim Basinger

#46. My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.

Gabriel Luna

#47. I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.

Anne Perry

#48. I spent the best years of my life atoning for something I didn't do, something my parents didn't do, something done just about before I was ever even born. I got no complaints with that, but I'm about all atoned out, and I ain't yet gotten round to atoning for the things I did do.

Shalom Auslander

#49. My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.

Elliott Carter

#50. Columbus was born around 1492. I say around because before that the world was flat. My stomach also used to be flat, but now it looks like a globe is about to be born.

Jarod Kintz

#51. 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

#52. I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.

Rob Thurman

#53. My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

Joseph C. Lincoln

#54. I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.

Rupert Murdoch

#55. I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.

Gisele Bundchen

#56. After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.

Annie Oakley

#57. I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

John Wesley

#58. We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Carl Sandburg

#59. Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

Richard P. Feynman

#60. I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.

Frank E. Peretti

#61. But I felt sure that The Shadow of the Wind had been waiting there for me for years, probably since before I was born.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#62. The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.

Isabel Allende

#63. I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.

John Jay Hooker

#64. Before Octavia was born, I used to think that love bore some relation to merit and to beauty, but now I saw that this was not so.

Margaret Drabble

#65. Why do you always make it sound like everything was better before I was born?"
"It's not you, Mitchell. There was just more civility back then. We still had respect for authority, I guess. This is what happens when no one trusts the people in power.

Brian K. Vaughan

#66. Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.

Rachel Joyce

#67. I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid. I've always been sort of a physical abnormality.

Timothy Simons

#68. I don't remember where I was before I was born, why should I be worried about where I go after I die?

Douglas Coupland

#69. I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#70. The poet Edgar Allan Poe described the false awakening phenomenon long before Carl Jung was born. He wrote, 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.' Have I answered your question?

Stephen King

#71. Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.

Cheryl Hines

#72. I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.

David Benioff

#73. Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would see another world when I died, which I was in no hurry to do.

Lemony Snicket

#74. I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#75. I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

Mike Myers

#76. I was born into the club life. My father was an Angel, and my grandfather before him. I was birthed by a club whore, suckled at the breast before the bitch ODed. I was chewed up as a sweet, blue-eyed baby boy and spat out a man.

Carmen Jenner

#77. I go through life watching the english language being raped before me face, like miniver cheevy, i was born too late.
and like miniver cheevy i cough and call it fate and go on drinking.

Helene Hanff

#78. Here's a question we all ask ourselves at least once when we're young: Where does that starlight come from? It's been there before I was born, and before my grandmother, and her grandmother were born. So just how far is that star from Earth?

Kim Young-ha

#79. We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

Jim Cooper

#80. I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

Marianne Williamson

#81. Never,' I said. 'One can die but once. Dim died before he was born. That red red krovvy will soon stop.

Anthony Burgess

#82. He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

Frederick Buechner

#83. I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

Osric Chau

#84. Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.

Sam Weller

#85. My wound existed before; I was born to embody it.

Joe Bousquet

#86. I was born in Faridabad and I spent a major part of my growing up years in Delhi before shifting to Mumbai. Delhi-NCR is still very special to me.

Sonu Nigam

#87. I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.

Ger Duany

#88. I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

Stanley Hauerwas

#89. I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.

Roger Ebert

#90. So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

Norman Geisler

#91. We make authentic Maharashtrian food at home. My mother supervises the preparation and the menu every day. She has been doing this since before I was born. I absolutely love the mutton sukka that she makes.

Riteish Deshmukh

#92. Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.

Jamie Wyeth

#93. I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

Lou Holtz

#94. I was falling in love with her, and she was falling in love with me. It was fated, decided before any of us were born, and I hated it as much as I loved it. I could barely stand it. (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

#95. First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Margaret Cavendish

#96. Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

Kathleen Quinlan

#97. As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

Monica Seles

#98. 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

#99. I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.

Anthony Liccione

#100. I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects ... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that [my children] should be bred up in it too.

William Cobbett