1.
I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
Kwame Nkrumah
'The African spirit is inextricably entangled within me.'
2.
I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.
Vidya Balan
I could exist in a sari; I was born to don a sari.
3.
Politicians are not born;
they are excreted.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politicians are not created; they are spewed forth.
4.
We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.
Louis Kahn
'We are spawned of radiance. The changes in time can be perceived through illumination. We comprehend the world as it is illuminated by brightness.'
5.
Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.
Benjamin E. Mays
Endeavor to accomplish your task in such a manner that it could not be surpassed by anyone, living or dead, or even those yet to be born.
6.
From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.
Muhammad Iqbal
Out of the past comes the present, and from the present emerges your future.
7.
How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?
Gary Yourofsky
What would it be like if somebody had predetermined the date of your demise before you even took your first breath?
8.
Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive.
Stephen Curry
Triumph is engendered from assurance, unfaltering enthusiasm, and a tireless momentum.
9.
Born to lose. Live to win.
Lemmy Kilmister
Emerge from defeat and conquer success.
10.
If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.
Abdul Kalam
11.
Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.
Myles Munroe
'Your occupation is not your mission. Your task is what they compensate you for; your work is what you were born to accomplish.'
12.
Before you came
the world was prose.
Now poetry is born.
Nizar Qabbani
'Your entrance sparked the creation of an artistic masterpiece; a metrical composition was born.'
13.
We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.
Laverne Cox
We are born with our own individual identity, the gender labeling is something that is externally imposed.
14.
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
Anton Chekhov
When a person is born, he can take only one of three paths in life: if you go right, the wolves will devour you; if you go left, you’ll consume the wolves; if you go forward, you’ll nourish yourself.
15.
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
Naguib Mahfouz
'Home is not where you were born; home is where all your striving to get away stops.'
16.
It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.
Charles Spurgeon
God ordained me prior to my birth, for I am sure He would not have done so subsequently.
17.
Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.
Neville Goddard
Every person is born with unlimited potential, which can never be constrained by any earthly force.
18.
When I die, don't bring me to the hospital. Bring me to Anfield. I was born there and will die there.
Steven Gerrard
When I pass away, don't take me to a medical facility. Take me back to Anfield. It's the place of my birth and it shall be my final resting place.
19.
Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
Rei Kawakubo
Outfitting oneself with clothing creates an individualized identity.
20.
We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.
Gina Lollobrigida
'It is inevitable that we will pass away- the key lies within how fervently we embrace life.'
21.
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
Richard Dawkins
It is commendable of the divine to have structured things so that wherever one is born, the nearby faith consistently appears to be accurate.
22.
I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts?
Ronnie Radke
23.
Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
Nas
24.
We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
Pablo Picasso
26.
If you battle L, you picked the wrong head
I smash mics like cornbread
You can't kill me, I was born dead
Big L
27.
I know I was born and I know that I'll die...
The in between is mine.
I Am Mine
Eddie Vedder
28.
Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.
Umera Ahmed
30.
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them.
Kevin Myers
31.
I gotta die with money cuz i wasn't born with it
Lil Wayne
33.
Only you know who you were born to be and you need to be free to be that person.
Ruby Rose
34.
I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.
Enoch Powell
35.
They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
Viola Davis
36.
True leaders are born when you find something to die for
Myles Munroe
37.
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
Donna Summer
38.
Some of us were born to hate and some of us were born to be great.
T.I.
39.
P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.
Jonathan Gruber
40.
I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.
Pope Pius X
41.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Harville Hendrix
42.
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
Maureen Forrester
43.
I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.
Albert Hofmann
45.
You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
47.
If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.
Voltaire
48.
I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since.
Peter Steele
49.
Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.
Meghan Trainor
50.
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.
Agnes Martin