Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Conroy

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one,

Kirstie Alley

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

Leonardo da Vinci

One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

Paul Muldoon

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987

Oprah Winfrey

You are worthy because you were born.

Marjane Satrapi

Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.

George Will

Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French.

Judith Jamison

At 10, I could walk down the street and see over everybody's head. I don't remember being little or having to look up at people. I think I was born 5 feet 10. It's not that I felt especially tall. I was wondering when everybody else was going to catch up.

That motto was born out of telling the kids that we (the coaches) can talk about X's and O's all day, but they have to make their mind up that they want to get it done. I can't always call the plays that are going to work. Sometimes the kids have to take it upon themselves. No matter what it takes, no matter what we have to do, just get it done.

Peter Steele

I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since.

Langston Hughes

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

Kwame Nkrumah

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

Lil Mama

I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.

Pete Rose

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

Liam Neeson

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

Leo Buscaglia

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

Julianna Baggott

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

John Avery

Be who you were born to be - it's what living things do.

Gary Gilmore

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Loren Eiseley

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

Carol Burnett

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

Henri Poincare

Mathematicians are born, not made.

Helen Thomas

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

Haruki Murakami

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

John Lennon

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

Jim Rohn

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.

Time ripens all thing. No man is born wise.

The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy

Mark Schwarzer

It's just a dream come true - it's the pinnacle. It's a lifetime ambition. I was born in '72 so I was only two years old when we went there in '74.

Benjamin Franklin

A man is not completely born until he be dead.

Frederick Turner

American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came stark and strong and full of life out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.

Johnny Damon

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