Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is the happiest moment of my life. Being born here, I could never imagine this university actually existing.

Hooman Majd

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

As a result of both these events, thousands fewer puppies and kittens will be born in this area.

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Matthew Arnold

A wanderer is man from his birth. / He was born in a ship / On the breast of the river of Time.

Johnny Damon

They hate to see players leave here. People around here are born to like the Red Sox.

Dante Alighieri

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.

Herman Melville

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

Henry David Thoreau

I was not born to be forced.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

Jean Genet

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

Jacques Derrida

Who ever said that one was born just once?

Ernest Hollings

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

Erin Hunter

CinderHeart: You’re the one that changed every thing. LoinBlaze: No. This was all decided before I was born.

Fiona Apple

Divas are not made, they are born.

George W. Bush

No insignificant person was ever born.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

Jean Cocteau

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

Frank Wedekind

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

Jay Wright

If I had four guards like this again, I would do it. But this was really born out of necessity.

Philippe Petit

If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.

Max von Essen

If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.

Joan Arc

I am not afraidI was born to do this.

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Darin Erstad

Are you kidding me? He's the face of the Angels. That would be awesome. If he's healthy, you know what you're going to get. The guy's a born hitter.

Rodney Crowell

Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher, ... In modern buzz-word speak, he was the inventor of 'What people think of me is none of my business.' So I got really hooked on him.

Mick Ralphs

English people are so boring, they tend to stay where they were born and never go anywhere... 'cause England isn't that big anyway.

Jake Johnson

First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.

Marilyn Monroe

Even though I was born there, I still can't think of one good thing to say about it. If I close my eyes, and picture LA, all I see is one big varicose vein.

Charles Babbage

Every minute dies a man, And one and one-sixteenth is born

Hasso Plattner

Every fourth PhD in the U.S. was not born there,

Eddie Jones

You look at him and he's just a born footballer.