Quotes with born-yesterday

Quotes 141 till 160 of 490.

  • George Bernard Shaw I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Maya Angelou I believe that every person is born with talent.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • David Copperfield I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alphonse Karr I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
    Walden Ch 2
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Steven Wright I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • John Malkovich I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
    John Malkovich
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • George Sand I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Sylvia Plath I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Madonna I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Anatole France I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • James Baldwin I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Colin Powell I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Judy Garland I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Bryce Courtenay I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Anne Perry I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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