(544 quotes found)
“You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.”
Billy Graham
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
Warren G. Bennis
“Actually I don't remember being born, It must have happened during one of my black outs.”
Jim Morrison
“When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?”
Tony Campolo
“A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.”
Frank A. Clark
“It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'”
Gabriel Byrne
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.”
William Penn
“I remember, I remember, / The house where I was born, / The little window where the sun / Came peeping in at morn.”
Thomas Hood
“Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
William Shakespeare