Born Quotes
He lives as if death will never come to him, but he dies as if he had never been born.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner All people are born alike except Republicans and Democrats.
Groucho MarxGroucho Marx I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.
Deontay WilderDeontay Wilder They saw her beaten and broken I saw the birth of a warrior.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Walter ScottWalter Scott There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SophoclesSophocles One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
Bette DavisBette Davis It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant