Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
Ecce Homo
My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
Pasternak Boris 1890-1960
Doctor Zhivago
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Reagan Ronald
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Rockefeller 2nd John D. 1874-1960
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
Saint-Exupéry Antoine de 1900-1944
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Sapirtein Milton R.
Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Hamlet
The time is out of joint; O cursèd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
King Lear
When we are born we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Macbeth
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Twelfth Night
Some men are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Sitwell Sir Osbert 1892-1969
At the House of Mrs Kinfoot
The British Bourgeoisie
Is not born,
And does not die,
But, if it is ill,
It has a frightened look in its eyes.
Spender Sir Stephen 1909-1995
Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun
And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
Springsteen Bruce 1949-
‘Born in the USA'
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
Stowe Harriet Beecher 1811-1896
Uncle Tom's Cabin
‘Never was born!' persisted Topsy ... ‘never had no father, nor mother, nor nothin'. I was raised by a speculator, with lots of others.'
Strachey Lytton 1880-1932
Eminent Victorians ‘Cardinal Manning'
The time was out of joint, and he was only too delighted to have been born to set it right.
Tallentyre S.G.
The crowning blessing of life - to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
Idylls of the King ‘Gareth and Lynette'
Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King -
Else, wherefore born?
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
In Memoriam
But I was born to other things.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘The Vision of Sin'
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Walton Izaak 1593-1683
The Compleat Angler ‘Epistle to the Reader'
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
Watkyns Richard
When I was born I did lament and cry
And now each day doth shew the reason why.
Webster Daniel 1782-1852
I was born an American; I will live an American;
I shall die an American.
White T.H. 1906-1964
The Sword in the Stone
But I unfortunately was born at the wrong end of time, and I have to live Backwards from in front.
Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947
(of scientific revolution in 16th Century)
Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doudted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
‘The Second Coming'
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?