"Be born" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... men who would have the courage to build such a castle in such a spot are all dead; all dead, and the world is infinitely more comfortable without them. They are all gone, and no more like unto them will ever be born, and we can most of us count upon dying safely in our beds, of diseases bred of modern civilisation. But I am glad that those old barbarians, those rudimentary creatures working their way up into the divine likeness, when they were ...
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... scheme of the organization of life by the superior person, who will decide for each man how he should work, how he should live, and indeed, with the aid of the Eugenist, whether he should live at all or whether he has any business to be born. At any rate, if he ought not to have been born—if, that is, he comes of a stock whose qualities are not approved—the Samurai will take care that he does ...
— Liberalism • L. T. Hobhouse
... entry gives a figure for the average number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to a given fertility rate at each age. The total fertility rate is a more direct measure of the level of fertility than the ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... ever born again," remarked Gabriella, as she kissed Patty good-night, "I hope I'll be born a fat blonde. They always ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... the rest of us knew (I mean the rest of us would have known, if we had been in existence) that he was heir to the Family Embarrassments—we call it before the company the Family Estate. But when my second brother was going to be born by-and-by, "this," says M. R. F., "is a little pillar of the church." WAS born, and became a pillar of the church; a very shaky one. My third brother appeared, considerably in advance of his engagement ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
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