Quotes with born-yesterday

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  • Gracie Allen When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
    Gracie Allen
    American comedian (1895 - 1964)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • B. B. King When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • William Shakespeare When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Butch Trucks When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else. The brain gets out of the way. Your body just does what it knows how to do, and it's just... it's like a religion.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Anthony de Mello When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
    One Minute Wisdom
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Bill McCartney When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.
    Bill McCartney
    American football player and coach (1940 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Aldous Huxley which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Florio Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Anais Nin Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • James Baldwin Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Zig Ziglar Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Bell Hooks Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alcee Hastings Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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