If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.
As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.
I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
You born to be happy, so love everyone like a happy puppy.
Love as if you were born to just love and have nothing else to do in this universe.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.
The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.