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...

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for...

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else…

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.

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

You may have been born on the rubbish damp. But be careful not to believe that the rubbish damp was born in you! Your environment may try to set conditions that may attempt their fingers...

There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they’re not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and...

God created you to be in the world.You are in the world to fulfil a specific mission.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.

If God meant for us to carry baggage around, he would have made our skin have little pouches like kangaroos. Or maybe he would have just made it so that each and every one of...

I’ve always been conservative. I was born that way.

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 love people. I was born loving people.

But with what wonder has the season come?Its treasure lies in earthen ships,that carry dreams across the foam.And how your memory of Sarah rapesthe fleshly heart that once bore scenes,now veiled in smoky stains of...

I always look like I’m lying. I was born with a politician’s face. You’ll know I’m in love when I have a Vote For Me look in my eyes.

I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night....

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

All who are born are always dying.

The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive.

I was born and raised Catholic, so it’s in my blood. I don’t go to church… I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request:...

People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born.

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being...

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

If you have been born only once, you will have to die twice. But if you have been born twice, you will have to die only once (and you may even escape that one death...

I’m luckier than my grandfather, who didn’t move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

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

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem’s a nickname; it’s a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.

I’m much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or legs and yet did magic, and had 14 kids, and...

I don’t think artists are made, I think they’re born.

I was born in a hospital. I do not want to die in one.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it’s startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba’s mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved...

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they’re just born bad, and I don’t know why.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to – be the bearers of the redress...

I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That’s how I was born and...

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

I’m a born, cautious optimist.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed – or some say cursed – with a strong New York accent.

If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I’m 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

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

I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.

I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog whilst out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.

I was born and raised Catholic.