New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition, a specimen of fossil man must be discovered in intelligence, attested by scientific knowledge, and interpreted by evolutionary experience. These rigorous prerequisites have undoubtedly caused many still-births in human palaeontology and are partly responsible for the high infant mortality of discoveries of geologically ancient man.
I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection
I was born in platform heels. I actually always fall down when I'm wearing flip-flops.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
Everybody knows that if you're born in America, you are a citizen. No, you're not.
The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.
How we are born to invent our own miseries!
Man is truly born the time he dies.
When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.
Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.
It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.
I was born in Belgium and moved to Amsterdam when I was 17. I am not a Calvinist Dutchman but a Catholic Belgian. I think that makes a big difference.
I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.
Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.
I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.