Quotes with born-yesterday

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• A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

  Luis Bunuel
  Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

  Gaston Bachelard
  French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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• A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

  Billy Strayhorn
  American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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• Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

  Tryon Edwards
  American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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• Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

  Satchel Paige
  African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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• All concord's born of contraries.

  Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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• All great art is born of the metropolis.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey
  American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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• All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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• All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

  Benigno Aquino III
  Filipino politician (1960 - )
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• Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

  Groucho Marx
  American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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• Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
  

  Op Broadway in Dame Edna Back With A Vengeance 2004

  Barry Humphries
  Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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• An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

  Hortense Calisher
  American writer (1911 - 2009)
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• An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

  Laurence J. Peter
  Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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• And, because she so illumined and glorified her clan,
  She brought to every father, every mother through the empire,
  Happiness when a girl was born rather than a boy.

  The Song of Long Sorrow

  Bai Juyi
   
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• Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

  Caitlin Moran
  English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

  I. Walton
   
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• As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

  Babe Ruth
  American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• old-fashioned
• relationship
• cultivation
• conspiracy
• happiness
• generally

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