Top 100 Born To Quotes
#1. Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.
Phyllis McGinley
#2. Born to be some body. You were born to be some body, maybe a vet, maybe a hero, maybe a care giver. What ever it is you were born to be some thing special and if you believe you can achieve
Justin Bieber
#4. Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Hans Morgenthau
#5. My wound existed before me;
I was born to embody it.
Joe Bousquet
#6. I knew that a radio somewhere was playing "Born To Be Wild" even if I couldn't hear it.
Warren Moore
#7. Love isn't something you can just unlearn ... no matter who you are, or who you're born to, or how much it's not returned - - Elephant Girl
Jane Devin
#8. I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
Cynthia Ozick
#9. I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
Eva Gabor
#11. She did not sing it at bedtimes because all small boys born to the High Speech must face the dark alone,
Stephen King
#12. I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.
Bryan White
#13. Letti wasn't born to pass through the world. She had been born to sit atop of it.
S.R. Crawford
#15. If living is to end in pain, incompleteness, and nothingness, it seems a cruel and futile experience for beings who are born to reason, hope, create, and love.
Alan W. Watts
#17. Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.
Victor Hugo
#18. Love as if you are born to love; live as if life is for love.
Debasish Mridha
#19. The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
Steven Pressfield
#20. Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.
Kevin Nealon
#21. The world seems to be witnessing a deluge of 'haterisms', and racist propaganda because evil's pain was born to die, and it's time of tyranny is near the end. Don't get caught up by the souls of wickedness; this ain't your fight. ~T.F. Hodge
T.F. Hodge
#22. The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.
Bruce Wilkinson
#23. We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it
Michel De Montaigne
#24. I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
Barry Bonds
#25. She nodded, looking down at the small wooden bird, a plain thing carved by a great man who'd always taken pleasure in creating things with his own hands. She's telling me, I think, that I should seek to be none other than myself, and so fly always like the bird that I was born to be.
Susanna Kearsley
#26. I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
Jennifer Carpenter
#27. You have a destiny, you are a human of intrinsic value, you were born to fulfil a mission
Sunday Adelaja
#28. Why do you want to fight and win when you were born to understand and forgive? When you forgive, you always win.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Birds are born to have wings; wings are symbols of freedom.
Nancy Yi Fan
#30. I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.
Mary Decker
#31. People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it's taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.
Emilia Fox
#32. 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
#33. Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.
Jello Biafra
#34. She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.
D.H. Lawrence
#35. I know you weren't born to make people happy, but if you did one day someone else will make you happy too.
Amna.s
#36. The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.
James Joyce
#38. Humans who are born with the essential spark are born to experience or perform something wonderful, something amazing.
Charlaine Harris
#39. Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
Jean De La Bruyere
#40. I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.
Gordon Parks
#41. How desperately I wanted to forsake these facts, to open a smelly old book or to go down on a pretty young girl instead. Why couldn't I have been born to a better world?
Gary Shteyngart
#42. Im riding a troll! i was born to do this,and steal stuff, and EAT LOADS!
Eoin Colfer
#43. We were all born to "be somebody," look deep inside your heart to find out who and what you are supposed to be.
Robert Cheeke
#44. We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
Tamora Pierce
#45. Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.
Beyonce Knowles
#46. This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
Holly Black
#47. I didn't feel like a slut, a bad mother, a terrible person. I didn't worry about my nudity or if he liked what I was doing. This shit was natural, like I was born to be in Joe Callahan's bed and it was natural to him too, like Joe Callahan was born to be in me.
Kristen Ashley
#48. Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
John Gay
#49. You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!
Bruce Wilkinson
#50. Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott Gregson
#51. My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.
John Eisenhower
#52. Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
Willie Mays
#53. Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.
Frederick Lenz
#54. Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.
Myles Munroe
#55. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.
Swami Vivekananda
#56. Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
Tanith Lee
#57. He was born a slave, but he was not born to be a slave.
R.A. Salvatore
#59. I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to know I'd have to capture everything I ever wanted to remember of Eire for the rest of my life?
Kate McCafferty
#60. Some women born to raise a beautiful families while some women are born to build an empire from ashes and rule the rest.
Pradeepa Pandiyan
#62. Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.
Lea Thompson
#63. We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people ...
T. Rafael Cimino
#64. The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.
Jan Karon
#65. I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.
Mary MacLane
#66. Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.
Thomas Traherne
#67. The moment we give in, no machine in the world can help us. But as long as we do not lose the feeling that calls out to every valiant man, 'You are born to rule,' we shall always know how to create the best instruments of power of our time.
Ernst Junger
#68. 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
#69. I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?
Marcus Aurelius
#70. Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#71. Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
Dante Alighieri
#73. Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.
Evelyn Ashford
#74. Don't be afraid, she tells us. Every end is a beginning. You lived before you were born to me and you will return here after.
Joe Vasicek
#76. I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.
Lena Dunham
#77. He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy.
Jim Thompson
#78. And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to
prosperity, you were born to love freedom.
You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we
cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.
Robinson Jeffers
#79. Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.
Thomas Wolfe
#80. You were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win.
Zig Ziglar
#82. I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
Frances Mayes
#84. There's a freedom to simplicity;
a love that only grow in small spaces
killing yourself ever so slowly
to put a smile on your child's face
from born to fly
K.R. Albers
#85. Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
Hannah More
#86. People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
Daniel A. D'Aniello
#87. Luca had many strengths and powers; as a rare blood born, conceived and born to a vampire mother and father, he was much stronger than those who'd been turned to the life.
Linda Howard
#88. But we are born to be happy, to be abundantly supplied with every good thing, to have fun in living, to consciously unite with the Divine Power that is around us and within us, and to grow and expand forever.
Ernest Holmes
#89. Some people are born to lift heavy weights,
some are born to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm
#90. The sons of Dior and Nimloth were Elured and Elurin; and a daughter also was born to them, and she was named Elwing, which is Star-spray, for she was born on a night of stars, whose light glittered in the spray of the waterfall of Lanthir Lamath beside her father's house.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. Here's the life lesson I've learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they've forgotten the hero.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#92. We are not born to survive. Only to live.
W.S. Merwin
#93. Children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
Mary Borden
#94. You can be whatever you want to be, Gen. Some people seem born to a profession. Others are so blessed in character and intelligence that they must choose. The one is miserable until he finds his calling, the other miserable until he has tried them all.
Brian K. Fuller
#95. But what did that mean? Was family the ones you were born to, or the ones who took you in? Did the first years of his life weigh more than the rest?
V.E Schwab
#96. The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
William Shakespeare
#97. 13And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.
Anonymous
#98. Boredom is your soul's way of telling you to step up and do what you were born to.
Miya Yamanouchi
#99. As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.
Ai Weiwei
#100. I had a couple of million dollars' worth of ... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
Norman Rockwell
