Born Before Quotes

#1. Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!

Zhuangzi

#2. He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing.

Steven Erikson

#3. Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

Socrates

#4. I love the predictions of a man right before his first child is born," Flowers said. "They're like little snowflakes. Right before the sun comes blazing out the clouds and melts those happy dreams away.

Michael Chabon

#5. Jeremiah 1:4-5 - 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart....' ...God knew me before He made me.

Francis Chan

#6. We - can't go back in time and change anything. If you went back in time and killed your grandfather before you were born, then you wouldn't be able to go back in time to kill your grandfather.

Rick Yancey

#7. I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.

Victoria Osteen

#8. 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

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

Cynthia Asquith

#10. In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

Frank Miller

#11. The seed of God's Word must be planted in a person's heart before they can be born again.

Andrew Wommack

#12. 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

#13. Once upon a bye, before your grandfather's grandfather was born, on the edge of an unexplored wilderness called the Endless Forest, there lived a boy named Tim

Stephen King

#14. When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

Elana Dykewomon

#15. And what does he have to say to the impressionable young student at his side? That all poets must eventually bow before the haiku. Bow before the haiku! Can you imagine." "For my part," contributed the Count, "I am glad that Homer wasn't born in Japan." Mishka

Amor Towles

#16. So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans create stories long before we are born, and we inherit those stories, we adopt them, and we live in those stories.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#17. 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

#18. Don't forget, Alexa. I longed for you before you were even born. There is no one deeper under your spell than me.

Trina M. Lee

#19. Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Marianne Curley

#20. Now that you're here, now that they know you exist, you'll never be free again. Ever. We're prisoners to our books, our fates planned long before we were born. You're no different than us. Fight your fate all you want, but deep down you know it's true.

Angela Parkhurst

#21. And I wish that I were not any part of the fifth generation of men, but had died before it came, or been born afterward. For here now is the age of iron.

Hesiod

#22. In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer.

Adam Sisman

#23. My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

Sigourney Weaver

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

Erin Hunter

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. He was awake enough to wonder if he'd been making bad decisions for his entire life. If he'd been a bad decision, himself, even before he was born.

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Carl T. Rowan

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

Ben Stiller

#31. 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

#32. Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.

Osip Mandelstam

#33. Perhaps God dropped them on their heads before they were born.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#34. The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

#35. God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

Charles Stanley

#36. 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

#37. We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

Robert Benchley

#38. No one will make a good end to the life into which he is born unless he is born again before he ends it.

Augustine Of Hippo

#39. 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

#40. The media called us ruthless terrorists. We're not. We're just fighting for what's right. Being born a nought shouldn't automatically slam shut myriad doors before you've even drawn your first breath.

Malorie Blackman

#41. Never keep your brain so full that people's opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be "born again" before it is believed.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Enoch Powell

#43. A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

James Russell Lowell

#44. Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Robert Herrick

#45. I don't know if once you die you remember things that happened to you when you were alive. It makes a certain logical sense that you wouldn't. That being dead will feel like before you were born, which is to say, a whole lot of nothingness.

Gayle Forman

#46. Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#47. The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit (John 3:8 NRSV). To be born of the Spirit is to step into a freedom that we never imagined before. It is to trust that the Spirit

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#48. But all this business about kings and lords, it's against basic human dignity. We're all born equal. It makes me sick.'
'Never heard you talk like this before, Frederick,' said Nobby.
'It's Sergeant Colon to you, Nobby.

Terry Pratchett

#49. The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Bill Gates

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. The kiss grew into so much more than anything that had come before, unfettered by a time that strived to contain passion, born from perceived loss and glorious gain.

Susan Catalano

#53. 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

#54. Doesn't take much before we have to compromise ourselves, does it?" "Get born," Michio said, pulling

James S.A. Corey

#55. Mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and
and in love before they're born.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#56. How far do you have to go before you forgive yourself for how you were born?

Mark Helprin

#57. 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

#58. 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

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

Bill Kaulitz

#60. What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

Ricky Gervais

#61. In a cruel manner of speaking, this young woman may well have lost her head before she was born; it is certainly not on her shoulders at this stage of the game.

J.D. Salinger

#62. 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

#63. To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.

David Luiz

#64. Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

Robert K. Merton

#65. I've been the oldest child since before you were born

E.L. Konigsburg

#66. Excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Jorge did

Umberto Eco

#67. 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

#68. 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

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

Jazz Feylynn

#70. The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.

Erich Fromm

#71. Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.

Maureen Hawkins

#72. Being born again by the Spirit of God means that we must first be willing to let go before we can grasp something else.

Oswald Chambers

#73. My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

Douglass North

#74. Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#75. As babies we're born blank sheets of paper. Not a single mark. As we grow older, lines form, then colors and patterns. Before long that paper is all sorts of brilliant. Like a kaleidoscope, no two exactly alike.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#76. 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

#77. What kind of ethical philosophy is it that condemns every child, even before it is born, to inherit the sin of a remote ancestor? Augustine,

Richard Dawkins

#78. 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

#79. We are born to wander through a chaos field. And yet we do not become hopelessly lost, because each walker who comes before us leaves behind a trace for us to follow.

Robert Moor

#80. God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.

Henry B. Eyring

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

Michael Leunig

#85. Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.

Barbara Kingsolver

#86. We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

Douglas Coupland

#87. 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

#88. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:

Kahlil Gibran

#89. Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Auguste Rodin

#90. All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born

John Burnside

#91. Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#92. For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.

Henry B. Eyring

#93. You weren't born guilty. You were born bold and playful. Then you forgot who you are and what you deserve. When you remember who you were before you learned to apologize for asking, you'll have everything you want.

Alan Cohen

#94. You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

Wale

#95. De girl baby ain't born and her mama is dead, dat can git me tuh spend our money on her. Ah told yo' before dat you got de keys tuh de kingdom. You can depend on dat.

Zora Neale Hurston

#96. 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

#97. When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

John Henrik Clarke

#98. I believe we all create our paths before we are born to each lifetime, in partnership with a higher presence, the Source. I also believe, once born, we are given the highest gift of free will. Intuition is our link between our chosen journey on our life path and our earthly choices using free will.

Christine Whelan

#99. OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

James Nasmyth

#100. The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

Seth Shostak