Quotes with free-born

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  • Michelangelo I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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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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  • Toni Morrison I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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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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  • 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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  • Antonio Tabucchi I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Buddha I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Burton Richter I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Humphrey Bogart I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
    Humphrey Bogart
    American screen and stage actor (1899 - 1957)
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  • Audrey Hepburn I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Alexander Pope I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • H. Youngman I was so ugly when I was born; the doctor slapped my mother.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Emily Brontë I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
    Source: Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XII)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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