A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.
Julie Christie

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
Les Brown

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

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Thomas Fuller

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

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