Born

Famous quotes containing the word born:

    “Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow’s mate,
    Keep all you have of queenliness,
    Forgetting that you once were slave,
    And let your full lips laugh at Fate!”
    —Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981)

    “Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
    That is not paid with moan,
    For we are born in other’s pain,
    And perish in our own.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “Father, I’m thirty-six,
    yet I lie here in your crib.
    I’m getting born againdam,
    as you prod me with your rib.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)