It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
[To my enemy:] Some are great, some are born great, some have greatness thrust upon them! And then there's you.
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.
If You Want to Learn Anything About Being Human , Make a Friendship With New Born Child .
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.
I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.
For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.
My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.
My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.
My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
Some are born brilliant, some have brilliance thrust upon them -- and others cower in the dark crying, "It burns! It burns!
Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.
You can always live extraordinary live. You are born to reach your full potential. The only limit is yourself.
