Born

Famous quotes containing the word born:

    “Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “The boy stood on the burning deck,
    Whence all but he had fled;
    The flame that lit the battle’s wreck,
    Shone round him o’er the dead.

    Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
    As born to rule the storm;
    A creature of heroic blood,
    A proud though childlike form.”
    —Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)

    “I was born to travel and write verse.”
    —Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)