Quotes of: Born Keyword

We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.

Richard Lederer

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

Paul Engle

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Ralph W. Sockman

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

1Q84

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them ," parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

Anne of Avonlea

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

The Age of Innocence

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.

Aleph

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

The Autobiography of My Mother

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.

The Anti-Christ

When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure payout and a line of tacky lingerie in the works

Jukebox

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those who are sworn to protect them.

Klarity

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

Killosophy

We are assumed to be rather hopeless -- swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

Range Of Motion

Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.

Silver Borne

You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.

Silver Borne

There's only one way to become an eagle, and that's to be born an eagle.

Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey Through Breast Cancer

You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

Somebody Else's Daughter

One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.

Single Dad Laughing

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler