On The Night You Were Born Quotes

#1. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. I want to thank my amateur trainer. We started at the bottom together. Just because you were born at the bottom doesn't mean you have to stay at the bottom. After Saturday night, we're going to put that bologna away and go get a steak.

Tavoris Cloud

#3. I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.

Carolyn MacCullough

#4. Love that comes between the naivete and awakening of youth satisfies itself with possessing, and grows with embraces. But Love which is born in the firmament's lap and has descended with the night's secrets is not contented with anything but eternity and immortality.

Kahlil Gibran

#5. Beware," the woman in the red lacquer mask said. "Of whom?" "Of all. They shall come day and night to see the wonder that has been born again into the world, and when they see they shall lust. For dragons are fire made flesh, and fire is power.

George R R Martin

#6. Some of my best ideas are born during a sleepless night.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

#7. I was born at night, but not last night.

Mills Lane

#8. When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

Simon R. Green

#9. Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born,
A helpless Babe, to greet the light
With a sharp wail, as if the morn
Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, to sleep, and weep again,
With sunny smiles between; and then?

John Godfrey Saxe

#10. Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.

Karla Souza

#12. For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born.

Deborah Harkness

#13. Sergeant Colon owed thirty years of happy marriage to the fact that Mrs. Colon worked all day and Sargent Colon worked all night. They communicated by means of notes. They had three grown-up children, all born, Vimes had assumed, as a result of extremely persuasive handwriting.

Terry Pratchett

#14. My first intervention is to say, when your baby is born, just don't jump on your kid at night," Cohen says, "Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don't automatically respond, even from birth.

Pamela Druckerman

#15. Now I just accept that we're born each day and we die each night. In between we live our lives.

Doug Cooper

#16. Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.

Nancy Tillman

#17. Hauk:tell me again why i can't kill him?
Nykyrian: you're afraid of handling explosives
( Born of night, sherrilyn Kenyon)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

Milton Sapirstein

#19. The seals that hold back night shall weaken, and in the heart of winter shall winter's heart be born amid the wailing of lamentations and the gnashing of teeth, for winter's heart shall ride a black horse, and the name of it is Death.
-from The Karaethon Cycle: The Prophecies of the Dragon

Robert Jordan

#20. A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night ... every day.

Ajahn Chah

#21. I was born in the night of the second and third
Of January, ninety-something-or-other,
An unreliable year, and the centuries
Surround me with fire.

Osip Mandelstam

#22. The sun sinks to rise again; the day is swallowed up in the gloom of night, to be born out of it, as fresh as if it had never been quenched.

William Peter Blatty

#23. I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night

T. Boone Pickens

#24. I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

Norman Wisdom

#25. When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.

Sarah Silverman

#26. Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#27. But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

Logan Pearsall Smith

#28. Birthdays? yes, in a general way;
For the most if not for the best of men:
You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:
So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

James Kenneth Stephen

#29. Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they were born. I hope they will always realize how much they are loved and valued. I feel so blessed that they are in my life.

Tom Giaquinto

#30. Love is no hot-house flower,
but a wild plant, born of a wet night,
born of an hour of sunshine; sprung
from wild seed, blown along the road
by a
wild wind.

John Galsworthy

#31. My birthday is October 10. I like my birthday: 10/10. It would've been great if I'd been born at exactly 10:10 in the morning or at night, but I wasn't. I was born just after midnight. But I still thinking my birthday is cool.

R.J. Palacio

#32. Tonight has been the craziest, most insane night of perhaps my entire life - except the one I was born. I imagine that's insane, coming out of a vagina and all that.

Emma Hart

#33. I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

David Copperfield

#34. I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!

Honorius Augustodunensis