Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.
In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.
Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog whilst out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.
I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.
In the '80s, before I was born, my dad played in the old Soviet Top League in our home country of Armenia. He was a small but very quick striker. 'Soviet Soldier' magazine actually honoured him with its 'Knight of Attack' award in 1984.
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.
We're all born bald, baby.
I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.
Carl Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon, in 1901, grew up in a farming family, and eventually held a number of blue-collar jobs. He knew what it was to be poor and to work hard for a living.
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, it takes some time to get in, to get to people, and to get the energy of the place.
Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.
Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
