Top 100 When You're Born Quotes
#2. When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.
Kurt Wagner
#4. No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.
Marco Rubio
#5. When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.
John Darnielle
#6. I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it.
Larry The Cable Guy
#7. It used to seem to me that my life ran on too fast,
and I had to take it slowly just to make the good parts last
But when you're born to run it's so hard to just slow down,
so don't be surprised to see me back in that bright part of town
Warren Zevon
#8. Well ... like, when you're born, you're a little baby, you're wrinkly and stuff, when you get older you sort of morph into a baby again ...
Karl Pilkington
#9. They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
Gabrielle Zevin
#10. When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.
George Carlin
#11. When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
George Carlin
#12. No matter where I go, sadness follows. No matter how much time passes it won't go away. You get only one heart when you're born, and you can't turn it in or get it repaired. The only thing that fills it is more sadness. I'm surprised there's any room left in there at all.
Miyuki Miyabe
#13. Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.
Paula Heller Garland
#14. When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.
Bill McCartney
#15. One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It's the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It's the first thing you hear when you're born - or before you're born - and it's the last thing you hear.
Dave Brubeck
#16. Years don't begin and end because everybody gets together at the same time and says they do. Years really start when important things happen to you. When you're born. When you find the human you're going to live with forever. Your life begins when it becomes important.
Gwen Cooper
#17. Life has two important dates - when you're born and when you find out why. - Mark Twain 1.
Gregory Benford
#18. When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.
Richard Kadrey
#19. You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
Andrew Greeley
#20. When you're born, they (God or little aliens or whoever) should send you into the world with a bunch of free passes.
Nicola Yoon
#21. [Unhappiness] comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.
Jamaica Kincaid
#22. Cool isn't for sale at the bondage store. You make it up yourself, pull it outta your asshole, your own unique brand that starts when you're born, and when you die, it's gone.
Lynn Breedlove
#23. Your brain is not formed when you're born, you have to build your brain.
Jean Berko Gleason
#24. When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that.
Christopher Titus
#25. A domain name is your address, your address on the Internet. We all have a physical address; we're all going to need an address in cyberspace. They're becoming increasingly important. I believe we'll get to the point where when you're born, you'll be issued a domain name.
Bob Parsons
#26. Why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out
Oliver James
#27. An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
Richard Hell
#28. You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.
Gloria Steinem
#29. Life sure is easier when you're rich."
"And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part."
"How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#30. I knew-exactly-the moment I fell for him. "When we're up on the mountain getting ready to go down for that woman's body, you remember, you smiled at me." It was like the sun hat touched the earth and been born in his body. "That's when I think I really lost my reason.
James Buchanan
#31. The day you were born, it was already written down the day you're gonna check out. Now, I'm not gonna throw myself under a truck, but I'm not gonna worry about when I die. I'm ready to move on when that day comes.
Carroll Shelby
#32. We're kicking our way into adolescence from the minute we're born. Gradually you form your own ideas of how you should lead your life. It's strange, but when you get hurt - really hurt, I mean - you're willing to throw those ideas aside for another set that now make sense to you and calm your hurt.
Carlos Baker
#33. Some of you were born with talent, some weren't. Some of you are lucky and got everything for free, some of you got nothing. But remember, when you're out on the ice you're all equals. And there's one thing you need to know: desire always beats luck.
Fredrik Backman
#34. I adore children, but I was never that interested in new born babies. It's a terrible thing to have to admit, and you're not supposed to think that way as a woman, but everyone promises it's different when you have your own. It wasn't for me, though.
Jane Green
#35. When we are born into this world, the world revolves around us. We're spoon-fed on the front end and diaper-changed on the back end. It's as if the entire world exists to meet our every need. And that's fine if you are a two-month-old baby. If you're twenty-two, it's a problem! Newsflash:
Mark Batterson
#36. I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.
Mark Lawrence
#37. Do you wish you would die?
No. But I might wish I had died. When you're alive you've always got that ahead of you.
Or you might wish you'd never been born.
Well. Beggars cant be choosers.
Cormac McCarthy
#38. I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."
Claes Oldenburg
#39. I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families
sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.
Russell Baker
#40. There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Hazel Scott
#41. You're beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet
Simon Armitage
#42. I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.
Julie Christie
#43. Malevolence is born of negative feelings like loneliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as if it's been carved out with a knife, an emptiness you're left with when something very important has been taken away from you
Ryu Murakami
#44. You know why doctors slap babies on the bottom when they're born? So the dicks fall off the smart ones."
He laughed. "You know why women don't have dicks? So they can stand closer to the kitchen sink.
Barbara Elsborg
#45. It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.
Tom Waits
#46. When people say sex is a filth of society, I say, yes! You're born by enchanting mantras and breaking coconuts!
Himmilicious
#47. I do have issues with the fact that music is so accessible nowadays. When I was growing up, we had to find our music; we had to fight for it. But hey, you live in the age that you're born in, and you get on with it.
Andrew Loog Oldham
#48. What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone of dangerous feeling or feeling too chaotic. You don't get to really do anything about that when you're a kid.
Patricia Arquette
#49. When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you were not born but crawled, headfirst - into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.
Ocean Vuong
#50. I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two.
Adam Levine
#51. No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.
Anne Michaels
#52. I've learned ... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
Andy Rooney
#53. You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,' they're saying, 'Acknowledge how these factors helped you move through life.' They're not saying apologize for it.
Roxane Gay
#54. Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.
David Cronenberg
#55. When to me you
leap and I'm born we
're sunlight of
oneness.
E. E. Cummings
#56. I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we're sitting here? Solving string theory won't tell us how humanity was born.
Lisa Randall
#57. When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.
Misty Copeland
#58. It's in every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.
Lykke Li
#59. I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who've hurt you. (Kiara) You're doing that now. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. When my sister was born, family legend has it that I asked my mother if we could reverse roles: "Let's tell her I'm her mother and you're her sister. She won't ever know!" Over
Lena Dunham
#61. You don't have to support Liverpool from the day you're born, Coach. You can learn to do it when you're grown up.
Fredrik Backman
#62. As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.
Gregg Allman
#63. I love London - its where I'm born and bred - but New York just has such an energy when you're walking around, and if you act or you write and you act like I do, its just such a good town for you because people here like people who can do more than one thing.
Cush Jumbo
#64. This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.
John Darnielle
#65. When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children,
Bob Marshall
#66. When you were born and your mom saw your face and your rear end, she said "Oh! Siamesse Twins!"
Jerry Lawler
#67. Love is only what you think it is at the time. Or what you make it. It doesn't exist of itself. It's born out of the spark that ignites when two people suddenly notice each other. Or it isn't. I mean, sparks die too, or you kill them deliberately.
Elizabeth Bailey
#68. There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
William Cartwright
#69. Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.
David Foenkinos
#71. I'm more attracted to glamour than natural beauty. The young Marilyn Monroe was a pretty girl in a sea of pretty girls. Then she had her hair bleached, fake eyelashes, and that's when she became extraordinary. It's that idea of what you're not born with, you can create.
Dita Von Teese
#72. Love is in constant motion, it is the energy which was created when you were born and it will never be destroyed.
Santosh Kalwar
#73. These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.
Sheri L. Dew
#74. 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
#75. In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
Ben Horowitz
#76. There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
Steve Irwin
#77. When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.
Niger Innis
#78. You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.
Pearl Cleage
#79. 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
#80. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
Beyonce Knowles
#81. When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.
Rumi
#82. Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.
Brent Weeks
#83. My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. And my boys, one's a bit more calm and chill, and the other is much more sensitive to things. You see this right away, when they're first born. One cried, one didn't, with the boys.
Chris Hemsworth
#84. When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and are born, you're no longer in a sterile environment. Very quickly you have bacteria living on your skin, in your nose and throat.
Paul A. Offit
#85. I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes.
Yara Shahidi
#86. I was born when my dad was 50 ... It's weird growing up with a dad that much older than you. We'd go to the movies, we're both getting discounts.
Gary Gulman
#87. When you see your life through the eyes of a dinosaur, albeit parrot, that's when you truly see the magic of God here and now. Stop questioning the past and live in the moment to strive for a better, more promising future. We're all born to make a difference.
Jes Fuhrmann
#88. When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person ... so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.
Natsuki Takaya
#90. Sometimes we're only born to die, my dear. But if that is what you're destined for - to die - then embrace it and don't be afraid when it comes
K. Weikel
#91. How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it ... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.
Joan Chen
#92. Listen to me. We're born over and over, day by day. When you feel lost, let the stars sing you to sleep. You'll always wake up new.
Sheila Turnage
#93. If you're black, you were born in jail, Malcolm said. And I felt the truth of this in the blocks I had to avoid, in the times of day when I must not be caught walking home from school, in my lack of control over my body.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#94. Wherever you were born and whatever you did, pool hustler, showgirl, tonight, you were a rancher's woman and just like you, when you do somethin', you're the best there is.
Kristen Ashley
#95. You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
Sophia Loren
#96. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too?
C.S. Lewis
#97. My mother turned towards me with a coffeepot in each hand, her jaw dangling somewhere near her collarbone. You'd think she'd never seen me naked, when I knew for a fact I'd been born that way.
Rachel Vincent
#98. The last of her children, whom she barely glanced at when he was born because it wasn't worth the trouble to try to learn features you would never see change into adulthood anyway.
Toni Morrison
#99. 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
#100. I have often thought," she said, "that women are the only true adults in the world, and men are a species of children. When babies are born, when the sick are struggling for life, when the old die, you will see women about, but rarely men.
Phyllis T. Smith
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