Top 1200 Born This Way Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a child born into the lowest classes have to overcome everything put in his or her way to mute that curiosity, when a child born to parents with access to the advantages of life will have his meager curiosity kindled and nurtured? The unfairness is horrifying when it is properly understood as an unfairness meted out on children, on infants, on babies.

Maybe we're born lost, born to persevere

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.

Another way to think of this is there are now 6.8 billion people on this planet, and half of them weren't even born when we went to the moon, and so they don't have the perspective.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

I feel like I can represent both countries, in a way, because I have a Korea face, but I was born and raised in the States.

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.

I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'

What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.

We're all born with different talents. I'm really not that smart, but I can see things - financially and development-wise. It's just the way we're made.

I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.

I think my personality is not because I was born this way but because I was raised this way. I was raised with a lot of fun, a lot of joy, a lot of happiness, a lot of passion, and that's how my family is.

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

I wasn't born an actress, but I was certainly born dramatic!

All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.

I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

I'm extremely grateful I was born in North Korea. If that didn't happen, there's no way I could understand other people's pain.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

You weren't born to fit in. You were born to be brilliant.

I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and not have a clear sense of what race really means in the country.

For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch.

I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.

Children aren't born with the techniques of democratic problem solving, but they are born with one of its key components - the desire to speak out...and that's where the struggle for democracy begins.

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

When I first heard Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way,' I looked out the window for the car alarm going off.

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.

I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

I was born in Texas, you know. I was born in Houston.

I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.

Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!

I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.

I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.

As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.

Because I was born in the South, I'm a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.

This is Steve's company. This is still Steve's company. It was born that way; it's still that way. And so his spirit, I think, will always be the DNA of this company.

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

I was born gay just as I was born black.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

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.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that.

I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.