Top 100 Being Born Quotes
#1. Some people can remember way back to the beginning of their lives. I've even met people who say they can remember being born.
Nathan Filer
#2. Well," said Eilonwy, "you can't blame Rhun for being born. I mean, you could, but that wouldn't help matters. It's like kicking a rock with your bare foot.
Lloyd Alexander
#3. Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be.
L.M. Montgomery
#4. Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
Henry Rollins
#5. Being born with a disability, can sometimes be a struggle, but it is the ability to overcome such a challenge, that makes it so worth the fight. NEVER GIVE UP!!!
Robert M. Hensel
#6. Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Isabel Allende
#7. I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
A. Whitney Brown
#8. I think that it would be more true to life, true to the Bible. I wouldn't have a problem with a black man playing Jesus. Being born in that part of the world, he would be more close to being black than white anyway. Although what he did transcended all races.
Robert Matthews
#9. But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.
Natalie Babbitt
#10. Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.
John Bingham
#11. As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.
Shukla Bose
#12. I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.
Rei Kawakubo
#14. Women, it is said, are inferior, amoral, animal and satanic. In which case, being born is either insulting, or meaningless.
Patricia Storace
#15. I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.
Mary Crosby
#16. Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.
Geoff Capes
#17. I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?
L.M. Montgomery
#18. The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock
#19. Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he kills the more people are gonna be born and grow up and go on being born and growing up and mixing, and no son-of-a-bitch is gonna stop 'em!
Jorge Amado
#20. Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.
Chris Oyakhilome
#21. Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."
Frederick Lenz
#22. How could passion run so deep
Had I never thought
That the crime of being born
Blackens all our lot?
William Butler Yeats
#23. I can't help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.
Kiera Cass
#24. Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
Dyan Cannon
#25. There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.
Marla Runyan
#27. Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.
Chely Wright
#28. Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.
Annie Lennox
#29. I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.
Rachel Klein
#31. The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins
#32. Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#33. Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'
Maria Sharapova
#35. New words are always being born and old ones fading away.
Patience Strong
#36. Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.
Chuck Palahniuk
#37. Every man is womanised, merely by being born. They talk of the masculine woman; but every man is a feminised man.
G.K. Chesterton
#38. What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We are all like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given - it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.
Donald Miller
#39. So then you ask her when her birthday is, and she says, Hmm, I don't really remember being born
Ruth Ozeki
#40. We change at least one person's life just by being born
Samantha Sotto
#42. The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
George Meredith
#43. Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in the hippocampus that ultimately differentiate into fully functional neurons.
David Perlmutter
#44. No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Alexander Herzen
#45. Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
Milan Kundera
#46. Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.
Phil Lester
#48. Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Isabel Allende
#49. Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.
Rick Yancey
#50. The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
Sergio Aragones
#51. To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born,
Michel Odent
#52. Sir Thomas saw repeated, and for ever repeated reason to rejoice in what he had done for them all, and acknowledge the advantages of early hardship and discipline, and the consciousness of being born to struggle and endure.
Jane Austen
#53. All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
#54. The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.
Koichi Tanaka
#55. One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature's too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
Marquis De Sade
#56. 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.
Jean De La Bruyere
#57. We sense that 'normal' isn't coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.
Charles Eisenstein
#58. I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born.
Charles M. Schulz
#59. I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.
A. Whitney Brown
#60. That's what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget.
Iain Thomas
#61. Being born and raised in Chicago made me tough. It made me strong. I feel like I can deal with anything. I truly believe that in my heart.
Shani Davis
#62. That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.
Amor Towles
#63. The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
Daniel O'Connell
#64. If you agree that bringing someone into existence can be bad for that person and if you also accept the argument that bringing someone into existence can't be good for that person, then this leads to a strange conclusion: being born could harm you but it couldn't help you.
Peter Singer
#65. There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.
Sylvia Plath
#66. Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed,
Molly Ivins
#67. Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Johnny Carson
#68. Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.
Maria Conchita Alonso
#69. I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?
Mary Ellen Mark
#70. I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
Laura Wade
#71. We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.
Joycelyn Elders
#72. being born with only one kidney, occurring in roughly one in two thousand people.
Jan Ellison
#73. as if being born a girl makes her responsible for everyone alive.
Samantha Hunt
#74. It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
Eugene O'Neill
#75. I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
Dwight Yoakam
#76. Anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake.
at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming
Meg Cabot
#77. Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.
David A. Bednar
#78. Our lives are born of the Ki of the universe. Let us give thanks for being born not as plants and animals, but as human beings blessed with a universal mind. Let us pledge to fulfill our missions by helping to guide the development and creation of the universe.
Koichi Tohei
#79. Excuse me, Tex, the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn't want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits.
Eoin Colfer
#80. Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves.
Will Schwalbe
#81. Have you noticed that more people seem to be dying than are being born? Bean asked, handing the section to Finney, who took it and nodded solemnly.
"That means there's more for those of us still here." He handed the section back.
"I don't want more," said Bean.
"You will.
Louise Penny
#82. The thought of being engaged to a girl who talked openly about fairies being born because stars blew their noses, or whatever it was, frankly appalled me.
P.G. Wodehouse
#83. Maybe i'm ashamed because it's hard not to feel ashamed, when just being born is something you can be killed for.
Sharon Dogar
#84. When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.
Khaled Hosseini
#85. Regardless of how many people I surrounded myself with, no matter how many friends and family I loved and was loved by in return, I was alone at the moment of being born and at the moment of dying. Nobody came with you and nobody went with you. It was a journey of one.
Karen Marie Moning
#86. I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.
Ruben Blades
#87. Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
Jeff Foxworthy
#88. Because if marriage is a kind of womb,
divorce is the being born again.
Tony Hoagland
#89. Born weary of being born, he chose to be a shade; when, then, did he live, and by the transgression of what birth? And if, living, he wore his shroud, by what miracle did he manage to die?
Emil M. Cioran
#90. When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother.
How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother
and as a parent.
Be gentle. Be kind. Listen.
Ruth Ehrhardt
#91. No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emil Cioran
#92. After all, I wasn't even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because being born into a belief tended to make me feel more like I belonged to it instead.
J.D. Brewer
#93. You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.
Scott Lynch
#94. My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me
Kim Soo-hyun
#95. My exit from the window is a little like a foal being born. It's a graceless and gangly drop, directly onto my mother's gerbera bed. I emerge quickly and pretend it didn't hurt.
Craig Silvey
#96. Leaders being born vs. made is a bit of a separate issue. The research on this issue is fairly conclusive: 50/50. We have innate predispositions that affect who we are and what we do (nature) but we can learn and develop and grow (nurture).
Dave Ulrich
#97. Seriously? He was going to make me explain the basics of being born with an X chromosome? Basically every female on the planet was insecure her first time being naked in a mans presence
Alannah Carbonneau
#98. He had never seen her body so abandoned, so unconscious of all but the desire to be taken and satisfied. She bloomed under his caresses, no longer the girl but the woman already being born.
Anais Nin
#99. We all belong here equally ... Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.
Polly Horvath
#100. The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.
Lucille Clifton
