Born Quotes

He not busy being born is busy dying. (Robert Zimmerman)

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled underfoot before one’s time.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly beginning to go down. And a creature exactly when he is born is exactly beginning to die.

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

Not to be born at all Is best, far best that can befall, Next best, when born, with least delay To trace the backward way.

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

The best of all things for earthly men is not to be born and not to see the beams of the bright sun; but if born, then as quickly as possible to pass the gates of Hades, and to lie deep buried.

Within every human being there are gods and goddesses in embryo with only one desire. They want to be born. We long to see the seeds of our divinity blossom but we have forgotten that every seed needs fertile ground in which to grow. That dark, earthy, essential place within us is our shadow. It […]

There isn’t anything you can’t stand, if you are only born and bred to it.