A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.
Most criminals are not born; they are made. . . . What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.
When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.
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.
I guess some of us are just born with Tragedy in our blood
In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.
Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian. '
I'm a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.
A new power is emerging on the world stage born of love not fear
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.
I have great skills. I can fight anybody, anywhere, anytime. I have done it in the past. I am on a different level than everyone else in the game of boxing. Nobody taught me how to fight. I was born a fighter. Everybody else was taught. That is the difference. I would rather show them than talk about it.
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname for a child. We named our son Beckett so we could call him Beck - we reverse engineered. And then after he was born and I saw the name on the birth certificate I realized Beckett was a really pretentious name, way too literary. Luckily he's grown into it. We nearly named my second son Dashiell. Can you imagine? Beckett and Dashiell. It would have been a disaster of pretentiousness.
When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.