I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
James Russell Lowell

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Richard Bach

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. Mencken

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James A. Baldwin

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James A. Baldwin

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc

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

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie Chaplin

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
Colin Powell

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
Herodotus

In soft regions are born soft men.
Herodotus

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
Lady Gaga