Famous quotes containing the word born:
“My family pride is something inconceivable. I cant help it. I was born sneering.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“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 (19281974)
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