Top 100 You Are Born Quotes

#1. It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

Jamaica Kincaid

#2. On the three pigs he and his wife own: We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has always been very fond of pigs. Of course, they are for eating, which is why they are named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. You wouldn't want to eat Rufus, Marcus and Esmeralda.

John Mortimer

#3. Modern families are complicated things. Siblings, half siblings, stepparents, stepcousins, what have you. You can't pick who you're born to, that's for sure.

Cherie Priest

#4. If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Christopher McDougall

#5. You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#6. We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.

Kim Young-ha

#7. You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.

Tony Dungy

#8. Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

Frederick Lenz

#9. You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart.

Margo Lanagan

#10. I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

Mayim Bialik

#11. What are you worrying about? You are born to die anyway.

Saurbh Katyal

#12. God-ordained dreams aren't just born. They are reborn. If they become more important to you than God, you have to sacrifice them for the sake of your soul. You have to put them on the altar and raise the knife. And once the dream is dead and buried, it can be resurrected for God's glory.

Mark Batterson

#13. You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was born with hope in his heart. You won't find that in the Constitution, I picked that up in church somewhere. They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.

Harper Lee

#14. There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.

Charles Simic

#15. That's what music did. It made you feel.
...
Music, her grandfather always told her, was language. A special language, a gift from the Muses, something all people are born understanding but few people can thoroughly translate.

Sara Zarr

#16. Whatever circumstances you were born into, whatever family life and education you had or didn't have, you came here to make your dreams come true, and no matter where you are now, you are fully equipped with everything you need to do it!

Rhonda Byrne

#17. Stinging words! You re critical of everyone," observes Iris. "Oh, not everyone," says Clara in an offhand manner. "Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.

Gregory Maguire

#18. A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows," he replied firmly. "Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.

Tamora Pierce

#19. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

#20. You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.

Sophia Loren

#21. Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he's a dragon in human form, you know. That's why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he'd think himself an apple and we'd all be a deal safer, but there you are.

George R R Martin

#22. Some people are born flight risks. It is no shortcoming of yours that they cannot keep their feet on the ground. It is not your fault that they cannot seem to stand in place. They are not leaving you; they are just leaving.

Trista Mateer

#23. 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

#24. Maybe some people were born with the fame gene. Like race or sexual orientation or X-Men mutations, it's simply who you are, and there isn't anything you can do about it. Perhaps it's why some people are drawn to crowds and cameras while others shrink away.

Benjamin Svetkey

#25. If it is true that men have souls that do survive them," he went on, ignoring me, "and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that my ghost will haunt you. I'll haunt you in the flesh, instead.

Susanna Kearsley

#26. It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more important than how people see you on the outside.

Emily Coussons

#28. You are born to be magical, gorgeous and beautiful inside and out. So express your beauty and fear not.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Your children are French-born citizens," the policeman said. "You may leave them here. They're not on my list.

Kristin Hannah

#30. 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

#31. There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.

Graham Swift

#32. Why would I try to change who I look like, what my race is? No. No no no. You are beautiful because that's the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it.

Shay Mitchell

#33. If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

Don Meyer

#34. So I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.

Stephen King

#35. But once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#36. You can always live extraordinary live.
You are born to reach your full potential.
The only limit is yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Some people are born starry. Some people shine so bright you can't help but sit back and stare. Some people can't help but shine.

Natalie Lloyd

#38. All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty ... Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.

Prince William

#39. Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?

Maurice Flanagan

#40. 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

#41. Once you believe in who you are and who you were born to be, it can be very powerful.

Dwayne Johnson

#42. It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.

Orson Scott Card

#43. If you have a plan and you don't even SHOW IT, you are just like someone born to be great and don't even KNOW IT.

Israelmore Ayivor

#44. You were born into this life equipped to succeed. You are a part of God's perfect plan. Yes, you. The plan would not be perfect if you were missing. Think about that. You matter more than you know.

Toni Sorenson

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. You are as the sun; born to rise, even if the world resents you for towering above it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#48. I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is the proverb in my county

Chris Cleave

#49. The truth is
you were born for you.
you were wanted by you.
you came for you.
you are here for you.
your existence is yours.
yes.

Nayyirah Waheed

#50. It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

Laura Hillenbrand

#51. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.

Lena Dunham

#52. You are quite mad." The smoke had filled her eyes with tears. "If you were better born, I'd marry you.

George R R Martin

#53. When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose ... Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult ... is only a slow sewing it shut.

Jodi Picoult

#54. Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess
native and to the manor born
and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an
an accountant!

Regina Doman

#55. I was assigned male at birth, is the way I like to put it, because I think we're born who we are and the gender thing is something someone imposes on you. And so I was assigned male at birth, but I always felt like I was a girl.

Laverne Cox

#56. Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible - time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket.

Richard Ford

#57. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.

Roger Ebert

#58. In simple words, whatever you were born to do, you were equipped to do it. You are a whole equipment for success!

Israelmore Ayivor

#59. If you are born weak, it's not your mistake. If you die weak, it's your mistake.

Saurabh Dudeja

#60. You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Lou Holtz

#61. Your life is a book;
it begins the day you are born,
the chapters pile up as you grow,
and the book ends as you die.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#62. The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

George Jessel

#63. Be kind as if you are born to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#64. I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#65. When I was 16 years old I led the team in scoring. I would attack, attack, attack and that is something I think you are just born with, I really do.

Michael Redd

#66. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Gautama Buddha

#67. Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.

Rumi

#68. Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or anorexic. It isn't fair to people born that way.

Heidi Klum

#69. I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

Ziad Doueiri

#70. Where are you from, Hadrian?" "Hintindar originally - a little village south of here in Rhenydd." "Originally? What's that supposed to mean? You got yourself born someplace else recently?

Michael J. Sullivan

#71. Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.

Paul Gitwaza

#72. I turned to face Oliver. "You are worse than that little voice inside my head."
He raised a shoulder. "I'd like to say I try, but I was just born this fabulous.

Laura Thalassa

#73. What's the first?" "Letting me be there when she was born." "What's wrong, Mommy?" Sam took a step back to see their daughter standing in the doorway. Natalie looked between the two of them. "Are you

Jessica Scott

#74. If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?

Lauren B. Davis

#75. I don't know. She said you're born with the lines of your hand - with a life - but then the lines change, with the things you do, and the person you are.

Diana Gabaldon

#76. You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Ralph Marston

#77. It was one of the constants of life. You are born, you die, you stand up when the bus doors open.

Jennifer Brown

#78. If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

David Eugene Edwards

#79. You were born in a culture and you are given many information about many things; unless you yourself investigate the truth of all these information, do not consider them as true information!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#80. One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

Daphne Zuniga

#81. You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.'
'Are you saying I have no choice?'
'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.

Anthony Horowitz

#82. We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn't have to be born to wealthy parents or the right zip code to be successful and do great things in our country!

Bobby Jindal

#83. Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

Augusten Burroughs

#84. I know what you are, Talon. You are the man I was born to love. The only man I was born to love."
"I'm not a man. Not anymore."
"You are mine and I will not let you go without a fight.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#85. Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

Angelique Kidjo

#86. Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

#87. God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and then do it for all we're worth for the rest of our lives. Ask God to show you your purpose. He will answer.

Robin Lee Hatcher

#88. Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.

Yasmin Mogahed

#89. Family are those your born to, those who are born to you, and those who you let in your heart.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#90. Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do.

Robbie Robertson

#91. As mortal humans we are born with a death sentence anyway, so what difference does a little poison make? Why not take a chance you will survive the ordeal and make something significant of your life? ... p330

Brian Herbert

#92. Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.

Czeslaw Milosz

#93. I understood finding the place you are born in an unbearable prison and wanting something completely different from what you are familiar with, knowing it represents a haven.

Jamaica Kincaid

#94. Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.

Marjane Satrapi

#95. With your votes you are working for your future. It is not a holiday; it is the most serious day of work since you were born. Better to come in clothing dirty from work than with your soul filthy from having sold your right to justice.

Luis Munoz Marin

#96. Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#97. Oh, Lucia the captain said softly, you are so little and so lovely. how I would have liked to have taken you to Norway and shown you the fiords in the midnight sun, and to China- what you've missed, Lucia, by being born too late to travel the Seven Seas with me! And what I've missed, too.

R.A. Dick

#98. You are either in here or you are in nowhere, because both the past and the future are nowhere; past is dead, future is not born yet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#99. Most Elizabethan men will shake their heads in disbelief if you suggest the idea of the equality of the sexes. No two men are born equal - some are born rich, some poor; the elder of two brothers will succeed to his father's estates, not the younger - so why should men and women be treated equally?

Ian Mortimer

#100. Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

Ray Romano

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