A Quote by John Ruskin

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

John Ruskin

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John Ruskin
English - Writer
February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?

Mitch Hedberg

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?

Mitch Hedberg

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Bertrand Russell

If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

Jake T. Austin

I be more hipper than a hippopotamus Get off in your head like a neurologist

E-40

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

Liam Neeson

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Lou Holtz

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr Wayne.

Henri

How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!

Smith Wigglesworth

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

Willa Cather

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.

Fernando Botero

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

Seneca the Younger

We are all born, and then we die. Make sure you enjoy yourself while on this earth.

Mpho Koaho

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