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

I was born with the gift.

When you’re born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.

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...

I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

The day you are born is the day you start dying

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

The French aren’t birthed; they’re hatched out of eggs. That’s why they make the best omelets.

Made from Each Other

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made...

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

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 was not born with English in my pocket.

I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings – the projects of New York City – and I worked my way to get to where I am.

If you have a plan and you don’t even SHOW IT, you are just like someone born to be great and don’t even KNOW IT.

When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They’d only just repealed the law where a man had to walk in front of every motor car waving a flag.

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren’t spayed or neutered. I’m proud to support PETA’s work to prevent animal homelessness.

I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

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

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

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I’m the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim...

If I hadn’t been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.

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

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York...

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I’d never be an astronaut.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

Businessmen… were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.

Women want respect but are let down by those of them who don’t respect themselves. Several men use this as an excuse to disrespect women. We are born with this as the norm and not...

I was born with a lazy eye. It didn’t define me as a person. It did, however, define me as a voyeur.

I was born in the city’s general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club,...

We’re all made the same but then born to change. Which then don’t make us the same.

Inside me I’m Ghanaian, and I’m proud to be African. But of course I’m Italian. I was born in Italy. I’ve never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I...

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

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...

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

What a great gladness to welcome a new born baby into the world.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a ‘ratchet’ bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp’s mansion.