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Born Quotes - Page 39

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.40, Harper Collins

All concord's born of contraries.

Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory”, p.410

A good poet's made as well as born.

Ben Jonson (1756). “Masques at court. Epigrams. The forest. Underwoods, consisting of divers poems”, p.303

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. February 5, 2004.

To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

Anthony Capella (2009). “The Wedding Officer”, p.305, Hachette UK

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

A living thing is born.

Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”