Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.
Most experts and great leaders agree that leaders are made, not born, and that they are made through their own drive for learning and self-improvement.
Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War, I would begin it myself.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.
I was born and raised right outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.
I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.
I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
Born ham, that's basically me.
'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
