Storm Born Quotes

#1. Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

Ruth J. Simmons

#2. I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

Kohta Hirano

#3. Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, Come on in!

Stephen King

#4. We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life.

Sorin Cerin

#5. Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

Ernest Renan

#6. Using 4-feet x 8-feet beds, that would be 22 beds per person or 66 for a family of three.

Brett L. Markham

#7. I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.

Mikhail Lermontov

#8. I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

Andrew Jackson

#9. The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

Martina Mcbride

#10. (Men without ambition are boring)
And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.

Richelle Mead

#11. I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.

Andrew Jackson

#12. Under pressure, even the smartest people will start to rationalize that frogs really can turn into princes.

Pierre Mornell

#13. How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.

Frederick Lenz

#14. After the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down.

Irene Nemirovsky

#15. Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. The beauties of nature come after the storm. The rugged beauty of the mountain is born in a storm, and the heroes of life are the storm-swept and battle-scarred.

Lettie B. Cowman

#17. She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.

Jonathan Tropper

#18. I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.

Kohta Hirano

#19. I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

Richelle Mead

#20. I'd seen weirder things than a haunted shoe, but not many.

Richelle Mead

#21. You are the most boring teacher ever."
He grinned and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek, just as a knock sounded at the door. "It all depends on what you me to teach you.

Richelle Mead

#22. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Lord Chesterfield

#23. But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

Robert E. Howard

#24. There was a long silence. Magnus broke it. "I have to hand it to you," he said. "I never thought Jace and Clary would be topped by anyone else in terms of insane, self-destructive decisions, but you all are giving them a run for their money.

Cassandra Clare

#25. We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney M. Young

#26. Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself
except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

Storm Jameson

#27. I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

Patti Smith

#28. If the other person says "Fuck Off," well, then, deal. Move on.

Richelle Mead

#29. I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

Liam O'Flaherty

#30. He was from a fantasy where fairies and pixies danced through the woods and slept in dewy beds of twigs and petals. He was a creature unlike anything poets or philosophers could conjure up. He was born from alchemy, created by twisting storm clouds and rays of sunshine together.

Nash Summers

#31. Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.

Nikita Gill

#32. The kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.

Richelle Mead

#33. Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#34. He looked like he needed some jungle ruins to explore or some bad people to hit with a chair. Trouble was, he was the bad people.

Ilona Andrews

#35. There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in the middle of a storm. Perhaps, then, it's not surprising that shores touch my soul. Science might disagree, but I think there's a difference in the air on a coast - the positive ions, perhaps.

Jo Beverley

#36. If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.

Hannah Storm

#37. Hope is born in the dark. Like a lighthouse calling out to a lost ship at sea, hope will bring you through every personal storm. It is our encouragement and guide to safety. Hope is found in the arms of God.

Cheryl Zelenka

#38. God refuses no one the gift of prayer. By it we obtain the help that we need to overcome disorderly desires and temptations of all kinds. - ST. ALPHONSUS. 17

Various

#39. He was born in grief, my queen, and that shadow hung over him all his days.

George R R Martin

#40. You have a storm in your heart
and you must accept
not everyone was born to handle rain.

Alaska Gold