Born

Famous quotes containing the word born:

“Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs. But you must have the believing and prophetic eye.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I traveled and made money and I wouldn’t let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music. ...What you were born to do, you don’t stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!”
—Eva Jessye (b. 1895)

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