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

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew Carnegie

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
Norman Borlaug

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Gracie Allen

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
Ringo Starr

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Aldous Huxley

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

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
Richard M. Nixon

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens

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

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
Eminem

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'
Neale Donald Walsch

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
Jeff Foxworthy