Born Quotes

Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

One must be born to any superior world - to make it plainer, one must be bred for it. One has a right to philosophy (taking the word in its greatest sense) only by virtue of one's breeding; one's ancestors, one's blood, decides this, too.

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.

My children didn't choose to be born, I chose to have children. They owe me nothing, I owe them everything.

Some people have an ability to negotiate. It's an art you're basically born with. You either have it or you don't.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here.

It seems to me right to do so here, in Philadelphia, where our forefathers defined the principles by which our nation was born and has ever lived.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

If I had not been born Napoleon, I would have liked to have been born Alexander.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

Only thing they ever did wrong was bein' born black in this white man's world.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.