Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
Studs Terkel

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
Pope John XXIII

Everything that gets born dies.
Morrie Schwartz

A person is born with a liking for profit.
Xun Zi

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Xun Zi

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
Grace Slick

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Humphrey Bogart

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
Herodotus

In soft regions are born soft men.
Herodotus

You are born modern, you do not become so.
Jean Baudrillard

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.
Andre Agassi

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?
Andy Kaufman

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
Walter Annenberg

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Pablo Neruda

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
Ted Williams