Quotes of: I-was-born Keyword

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

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

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

Mornings in Jenin

Some people are born to survive. No matter what comes their way, no matter how much pain is dealt them, they live." ~Mercy~

Mercy

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)

Minutes Before Sunset

You dumb-ass ape, get your hand off me. What—are you the first in your family to be born without a tail?

Make Me, Sir

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

But he never forgot how once by not knowing time, He escaped into the clockless land of ever, Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born.

New and Collected Poems

Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.

Katya's World

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

Like Water for Chocolate

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

Live and Let Die

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...

Les Misérables

You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!

Leaders' Watchwords

The biggest loopholes created in the world become evident when people who were born to lead do not eventually become leaders and never know it!

Leaders' Watchwords

When the time travel is eventually doable technologically, yesterday was dead a man who is going to be born tomorrow.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Careers are not made in a family business, they are born – by patricide. Then they die from neglect, and avoid the tragedy of being put out of business.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

You’re quite the specimen. Built like a sturdy building. Are all your Low Born females like you?” “You’ve begun to annoy me.

Supernatural

Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician … and we were all born to be magicians.

The Spell of Summer

There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even whey they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.

Tell Me When I'm Dead

Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.

Pony Girl

Patience is born when we create a pause between our experience of a feeling and our response to that feeling.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living