The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
E. Stanley Jones

I was born nine months premature.
Jay London

We are all born marked for evil.
Charles Baudelaire

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Charles Baudelaire

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Martin Heidegger

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer

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

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas Carlyle

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
Marc Chagall

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole France

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
Cat Stevens

All pitchers are born pitchers.
Joe DiMaggio