Born Quotes - Page 31

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

All men are born free: just not for long.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

I was born in 1962, and the room next to me was 1963.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

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

Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

Heroes aren't born, they're cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

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

When a child is born the mother also is born again.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.

We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.