Top 100 Was Born Quotes
#1. Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.
Isaac Watts
#2. The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.
Douglas Brinkley
#4. When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They'd only just repealed the law where a man had to walk in front of every motor car waving a flag.
Henry Allingham
#5. I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.
Steven Seagal
#6. I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
Beatrice Lillie
#7. Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
Iris Chang
#8. To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion.
Mitch McConnell
#9. The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted ... That's a pretty scary thought.
Al MacInnis
#10. When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.
Iman
#11. I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.
Sean Maguire
#12. Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James Baldwin
#13. As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#14. When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
Harri Holkeri
#15. I was born in the hands of a woman. And I want to die in the hands of one.
M.B. Mohan
#16. I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.
Charlie Parker
#17. The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.
Peter Dinklage
#19. Like dew I was born
Like dew I vanish
..and all that I have ever done
Is but a dream
Within a dream
James Clavell
#20. When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.
Troye Sivan
#21. I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.
John Joseph Adams
#22. In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
Joni Mitchell
#23. I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times & intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
Gustave Courbet
#24. 'Tigerman' was born in the front seat of a Hilux SUV on the road north out of Chiang Mai.
Nick Harkaway
#25. When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
Malala Yousafzai
#26. I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.
Adrian McKinty
#28. I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.
Luke Bryan
#29. Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.
Shimon Peres
#30. I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#31. I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering.
Mike Krieger
#32. I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.
Charles Durning
#34. I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
Anne Tyler
#35. I was born to be an explorer. There never was any decision to make. I coudn't be anything else and be happy,the desire to see new places, to discover new facts- the curiosity of life always has been a resistless driving force to me.
Roy Chapman Andrews
#36. I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.
Augustus Washington
#37. I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
Malala Yousafzai
#38. I was born in 1962 and the room next to me was 1963.
Joan Rivers
#39. Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
Artie Shaw
#40. I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.
Dorothy Malone
#41. I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the barometric pressure it affected my brain and I was destined to become a stand up comic, although at that age I wasn't aware of my destiny.
Bill Engvall
#42. In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.
Mark Twain
#43. When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#44. Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah.
Brandon Flowers
#45. To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizner
#46. I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do and always growing and never stopping. I don't know. It's something I was born with. It's definitely a drive. It's a passion, and it's driven for a love for what I do.
Jennifer Lopez
#47. Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.
Hugh Masekela
#48. After she was born, I wanted to run away, to bring her to Earth, but my wife was even more devoted to Her Majesty than I had been. She wanted nothing to do with the child. And so my little Crescent Moon was taken away, like all the others.
Marissa Meyer
#49. I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.
Sebastian Stan
#50. There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
Dan Brown
#51. I was born to love you
with every single beat of my heart.
I was born to take care of you
every single day of my life.
Freddie Mercury
#52. I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
Kitty Carlisle
#53. It means that Rama was born on 10 January in 5114 BCE at precisely 12.30 pm.' 'And
Ashwin Sanghi
#54. Here's what's interesting about Katharine Hepburn: she was born a girl but identified as a boy, so she shaved her head and rechristened herself Jimmy.
William J. Mann
#55. Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
Lady Gregory
#56. Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
Alex Haley
#57. I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.
Paula Poundstone
#58. This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#59. My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.
Kirsten Dunst
#60. I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it. Some people, like some of the women I know, have a black belt in spending. They were born with that. But what they gave me was a black belt in chutzpah.
Charlie Munger
#61. I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#63. The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
C. Wright Mills
#64. Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
Jenny McCarthy
#65. Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
Sri Aurobindo
#66. My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
Gale Gordon
#67. I was born to stand, fight and when all is done to give God the glory for the victories.
Artur Pawlowski
#68. She'll be willing to meet someone who can hold her interest for more than a few months, and that guy will teach her about domestic deepenings, the modest reliable thrill of the familiar, which as almost everyone but Liz knows has been the way of human happiness since humanity was born.
Michael Cunningham
#69. I was born Stranger
I will die Stranger
Unknown is my name
Unknown is my country.
Santosh Kalwar
#70. Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.
Elvin Jones
#71. I was able to concentrate and focus better on the day I was born than Max is able to even today.
Matthew Dicks
#72. I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
Aaron Swartz
#73. For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with them. I find I can get along very well with Jews or even ... ' The P of Papists was already formed, and the word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.
Patrick O'Brian
#74. Martin concluded that man was born to live in either the convulsions of distress or the lethargy of boredom.
Voltaire
#75. Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.
Peter Jurasik
#76. I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.
Neil Cross
#77. I always felt strongly connected to the region where I was born. But after leaving school, the only clear thought I had about my life was to leave this provincial area and go to places where real life was happening.
Volker Bertelmann
#78. I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, but there is no scriptural or historical basis for December 25th actually being the day that Jesus was born.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
#79. I don't have a problem with nudity. I never have. I was born naked. I'd like to buried naked. It's a way of life in Australia.
Elle Macpherson
#80. So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
Joan Jett
#81. Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don't know how many wives he has. I'm not saying that I believe in that, I'm just saying he was born on a Mormon compound. I'm not a 'Wifer' but for some reason he's never shown his original marriage certificate.
Bill Maher
#82. When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.
With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil's walking parody
On all four-footed things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#83. I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
Abraham Lincoln
#84. People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to stop sex. I'm trying to stop people from dying from sex.
Mechai Viravaidya
#85. I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.
Margot Asquith
#86. I got lost in the night, without the light
of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me
I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.
Pablo Neruda
#87. All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Voltaire
#88. I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
Constance Baker Motley
#89. I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'
Tom Waits
#90. I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.
Jon Stewart
#91. I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.
Frida Giannini
#92. It was quite settled by now. She was born to be a spinster.
Laura Kinsale
#93. The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
Stephen Leacock
#94. I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.
Mark Twain
#95. Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born.
Jacqueline Delange
#96. Doubt was probably a sickness he was born with, and fighting against it was his lot in life ...
Andreas Eschbach
#97. I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
Ira Sachs
#99. What do you mean Taurus? he frowns. I'm not a Taurus.
You were born on the cusp, I remind him. Jason merely shrugs.
Shows what you know, Scotty, I was born in Ohio.
I can take him anywhere but out.
Steve Kluger
#100. Perhaps God had made a deal with the devil the day I was born. Freedom won't find me.
A. Giannoccaro
