1042 – “Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.”

-Gretchen Ross (Played by Jena Malone) in Donnie Darko

916 – “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

-anonymous

837 – “We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”

–Gayle Forman

803 – “Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur?”

“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?”

–Cicero

697 – “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”

–Drafting Committee for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Draft Committee Members:
Eleanor Roosevelt (Chair), USA; Peng Chun Chang, Republic of China; Charles Habib Malik, Lebanon; William Roy Hodgson, Australia; Hernán Santa Cruz, Chile; René Cassin, France; Alexander E. Bogomolov, Soviet Union; Charles Dukes, UK; John Peters Humphrey, Canada

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680 – “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”

–anonymous

261 – “Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.”

–Ali ibn Abi Talib