#born

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#born #character #created #creation #death

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#boy #brothers #cambodia #daughter #elation

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on. ↗

— Brad Pitt

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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#bad #bad luck #being #born #determination

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#aware #born #brought #clan #deeply

All great art is born of the metropolis. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#born #great #great art #metropolis

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

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I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#born #bronx #college #got #harlem