Born

Famous quotes containing the word born:

“My family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“He was born in Alabama.
He was bred in Illinois.
He was nothing but a
Plain black boy.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“the gentleness of wine in his fingertips,
where do these hands come from?
I was born a glass baby and nobody picked me up
except to wash the dust off me.
He has picked me up and licked me alive.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)