I was born in August, no July, 1908.
Satchel Paige

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Satchel Paige

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
Freddie Mercury

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

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
Steve Irwin

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
Sitting Bull

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Fran Lebowitz

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Diane Arbus

Man always dies before he is fully born.
Erich Fromm

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

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Erich Fromm

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
Neil Armstrong

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone De Beauvoir

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee

Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli