Quotes of: I-was-born Keyword

There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise.

The Seven Storey Mountain

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...

The Scented Garden Of Abdullah The Satirist Of Shiraz

Anything in your life that’s acting as a security blanket is only smothering the person you were born to be.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...

The Scarlet Ibis: The Collection of Wonder

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.

This Book Title is Invisible

In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.

The Orchard of Lost Souls

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.

The Other Side

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

The Price of Dick

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

Poems, Plays and Miscellaneous Essays

So death lay in arrest. But at Bethlehem the bless'd Nothing greater could be heard Than a dry wind in the thorn, the cry of the One new-born, And cattle in stall as they stirred.

Poems

Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.

Prayers Plainly Spoken

The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.

The Richest Man in Babylon

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Twelfth Night

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?

Warm Bodies

She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who’d died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.

When Gods Die

You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July.

White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War

But to dream you first must know the sleep of men. You do not smell of sleep, you do not smell of dreams. You smell of an eternity born of unremembered beginning.

The Watchers

Michael and Gabriel- "Creatures of an unremembered beginning, born of light and sent to protect this place and live among men of free will. To comfort them in death and guide their souls to a new form." Angels

The Watchers