I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
George Sand

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel Johnson

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
Randy Harrison

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.
Linus Torvalds

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
Don Van Vliet

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

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Stevie Wonder

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Jimmy Johnson

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
Gianni Versace

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Elayne Boosler

A man is born free.
Stokely Carmichael

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
Giacomo Casanova

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
Erykah Badu