Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.
We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.
Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me.
A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.
Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.
But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.
Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.
I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?
From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.