Quotes of: I-was-born Keyword

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.

Don Lemon

Often we can't find the power of life even when we're born with it; like a horseman can't find his horse when he is riding on it.

Debasish Mridha

They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

Jeff Foxworthy

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

James P. Hogan

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

When a child is born, the exact moment it draws its first breath should be noted, as that moment, and not the time of delivery, is the time of birth from the astrologer's point of view.

Max Heindel

Marcus Aurelius: [to his daughter Lucilla] If only you had been born a man, what a Caesar you would have made.

Gladiator

Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant? Or were you just born stupid?

The Help

Narrator: Born in a barn in the hills of Boronia, Ralph lived a long life and died of pneumonia.

Mary and Max

Christopher "Chris" Wilton: Sophocles said, "To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all."

Match Point

Private Witt: [narration] You're death that captures all. You too are the source of all that's going to be born.

The Thin Red Line

Gordon Gekko: Sir Larry Wildman. Like all Brits, he thinks he was born with a better pot to piss in.

Wall Street

Professor Charles Xavier: A new species is being born. Help me guide it, shape it, lead it.

X-Men: First Class

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

Katy Perry

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

Les Brown

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

Leon Foucault

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

Daisaku Ikeda