We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. – Judith Martin
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation. – John Burroughs
I’m a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it’s like losing a leg. – Judy Holliday
I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that’s heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual. – Jerry Falwell
I was born with Spina bifida. That’s where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out. – John Mellencamp
It’s no one’s fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride? – Joan Collins
Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child’s paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. – John Ralston Saul
Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I’ve listened to her since I was a little kid – the first album I ever bought was ‘A Star is Born’ with Kris Kristofferson. – Idina Menzel
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. – Italo Calvino
I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn’t anything called a video game. When ‘Pong’ came out, it was awesome. – John Lasseter
Heroes aren’t born, they’ re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero. – James Belushi