Born

Famous quotes containing the word born:

“We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

“We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers’ wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

“He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”
—14th-century French proverb, first recorded in English in A. Barclay, Gringore’s Castle of Labour (1506)