You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.
She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.
Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.
Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.
I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.
I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.
My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention as I used to before she showed up, and then I learned pretty early on that if I could do a silly dance or make grown-ups laugh, then the attention would come back to me, and I would be accepted.
I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
