To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

The dragon spits fire, what extinguishes its tears. When we live in rancor, we are born to be old. (Le dragon crache du feu, – Ce qui éteint ses larmes. – Quand on vit de rancune, – On naît pour être vieux.)

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

He could not stand. It was not that he could not thrive, he was born with everything but the will — that can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born – but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

I love doing what I do. I’m a born mentor. I’ve launched so many people’s careers. I worked hard.

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

We were born between Oh Yeah& Goddammit. I knew lifeBegan where I stood in the dark,Looking out into the light,& that sometimes I could seeEverything through nothing.The backyard trees breathedLike a man running from himselfAs my brothers backed awayFrom the screendoor.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

I was not born with English in my pocket.

You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.

I was born and raised Catholic.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

Writers aren’t born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

A moment is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

Mum doesn’t like it when I mention that Dad’s a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

I’m doing stand-up comedy. I’m working on a one-woman show about how I don’t like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it’s the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that’s heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

I was born with the gift.

I’m very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can’t play an instrument. I’m a terrible singer. I’m not about to launch my album!

If supernatural life in God’s paradise is more important than natural life on earth, then the day you received Jesus Christ is more important than the day you were naturally born. Jon 3:6

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn’t born in me.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

Made from Each Other

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

If you want to know my story, you have to go back to the beginning. Not the beginning-beginning, but about nine months later. You see, I was born as a poor farm boy. Believe it or not, my parents were so poor that they didn’t even own a farm. Nope. Instead, they had to live...

I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.

At birth, we are like cartilage – soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I’m strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

So from an angry lawman’s mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born.

Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can’t do it.

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

I’m a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.