Born

Famous quotes containing the word born:

“We are born male. We must learn to be men.”
—Kent Nerburn (20th century)

“Do you know how poetry started? I always think that it started when a cave boy came running back to the cave, through the tall grass, shouting as he ran, “Wolf, wolf,” and there was no wolf. His baboon-like parents, great sticklers for the truth, gave him a hiding, no doubt, but poetry had been born—the tall story had been born in the tall grass.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”
—John Buchan (1875–1940)