Birth Circumstances Quotes

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn't have to be born to wealthy parents or the right zip code to be successful and do great things in our country!

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

She was born in the Objective case.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.

Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.

I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.

When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,' they're saying, 'Acknowledge how these factors helped you move through life.' They're not saying apologize for it.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

Everyone is so concerned now where all of the candidates are born. McCain was born on a military base in Panama. Hillary was born outside Chicago, and if you believe the media, Barack Obama was born in a manger.

If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?