I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

- Alanis Morissette

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

- Andy Warhol

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

- Andrew Carnegie

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

- Andrew Carnegie

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

- Andrea Bocelli

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

- Andrea Bocelli

I'm not a natural born performer.

- Amy Winehouse

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

- Alexander Graham Bell

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

- Aldous Huxley

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

- Abraham Lincoln

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

- Alan Watts

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

- Alan Kay

I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn't used up being born the first time.

- Alan Alda

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

- Ai Weiwei

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

- Agnes Martin

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

- Aeschylus

Life on the planet is born of woman.

- Adrienne Rich

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

- Adam McKay

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

- Abraham Lincoln