This snake, which may reach gigantic size and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken’s egg, hatched beneath a toad. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I could put my finger on the exact spot where I was and had been ever since I’d been born. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year or so later, my baby brother, Andrew, was born. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had never wanted to be born to lepers. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The woman who was born on Aviation Day, the woman who was born to be in the air, had vanished in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The last mouse born to his parents and the only one of his litter to be born alive. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The state all of us are citizens of, the one most of us were born into. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She said, “You sure do talk peculiar. Where you born? You from this here town?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They had always known she was a born leader; but now, smiling and triumphant in fine court garments, she looked like a queen. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She imagined they all knew that she’d been born a harami, a source of shame to her father and his family. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

So the God of the Vine was born of fire and nursed by rain, the hard burning heat that ripens the grapes and the water that keeps the plant alive. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jasmine was born nine months after one such visit, and now the Delanys owned two slaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But after August was born, my parents underwent genetic counseling. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the final paragraph, Mother described the birth of Emily’s second child, a daughter, who had been born a month before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘My father dead before ever I was born ...’ Now, for as long as it stood, this would be a haunted house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no players born in July, October, November, or December, and only one each in August and September. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“No one knows what animals future years will be named after. I mean, the last reptilian year was the Year of the Gecko and that was before I was born.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Unlucky from the day she was born, she now had a beautiful and well-loved partner. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Eastman told me that I could write to you with more questions about Penikese and the babies who were born there: Jason and Morgan. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

By the time I was born in 1982, they were kings of pastry. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She wasn't even born when Valentina Tereshkova made her historic flight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Slavin was born a hemophiliac in the 1950s, when the only available treatment involved infusions of clotting factors from donor blood, which wasn’t screened for diseases. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the instrumentarium was born—the complete set of which includes bass bars, bass, alto/tenor, and soprano metallophones, xylophones and alto and soprano glockenspiels. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“I was born here,” Gitano said in gentle rebuke. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all of that was dashed to hell two days after I was born, when the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Our family has been in Yazd for many years. Many generations, born and raised here. And then put here when they died.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My mother told me she had read to me when I was in the womb before I was born. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Consider a resident of Berlin, born in 1900 and living to the ripe age of one hundred. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, I was born in this country, but if my mom isn't supposed to be here, am I still American? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“This was taken the year I was born. And I found another picture. When she was my age. She looked just like me. She’s my mother, isn’t she?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was born in China and moved to Cambodia as a little girl. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d worked at a hatchery before I was born, but the work at that hatchery was seasonal, and once I was born, he needed to make more money. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

So now, my dad told me, there are so few babies being born that the population’s going to be cut in half.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

If identical twins possess a strong concordance for schizophrenia, say, while fraternal twins—born and bred in an identical environment—show little concordance, then the roots of that illness can be firmly attributed to genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Their mums were friends from before Conor and Lily were born, and Lily had been like a sister who lived in another house, especially when one mum or the other would babysit. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He’d been born only a few years after Hazel, and had been locked away in a magic hotel for decades. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Over the years nine children were born, four boys and five girls, and with each birth another quarter-section was added to the ranch, and that makes eleven quarter-sections, or seventeen hundred and sixty acres. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were four girls, including Catherine, who was born not quite two years after Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I think it won’t be long before the babies are ready to be born.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The boy was a born fighter—ferocious, utterly fearless, quick and powerful—but he didn’t fight often and he hadn’t much to say afterward. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I want to know what you taste like. If being born with color changes the way you feel." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Everyone is born with instincts,” Ms. Dale says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Hundred years ago, when hollows first born, they strike my home first. Everything destroy. All in village killed. Old woman. Baby. All.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“This is about us, Amari. We’re the born magicians of this age. I realize now that this is our time, not the Night Brothers’.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It was made in 1910, the year I was born,” he said proudly. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The date of my birth got even more confusing when my dad accidentally filled out an immigration document incorrectly and suddenly I was born on September 21. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I have my old father and these three small mouths and another about to be born. We must go lest we forget our nature and eat each other as the wild dogs do.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

That Bentley was native born, from an old Massachusetts family, and educated at one of America's top colleges made her seem more threatening; anybody, it seemed, could succumb to the lure of the communist menace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tallmadge had been born on Long Island, which, like New York City, was occupied by the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like a dolphin, being born into the water, swimming away just seconds after birth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Died a few weeks after you were born.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I thought of writing about being deported, but I did not want my teacher to know that my family had crossed the border illegally and that I was born in Mexico. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She started off as a reservations associate, then moved to gate agent after Charlie was born. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We wept quite openly that Friday in the second week of May when Israel was born. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Being born into it, raised in it, we become acclimated to the altitude, like natives in the Andes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s intoxicated and furious and not all that well trained, but he’s one of the Folk, born with their cat reflexes and blessed with height that gives him better reach. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In any case, I was born thirty-nine weeks later. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Those, I repeat, who are born in the Reservation are destined to die there.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thebes was Dionysus’ own city, where he was born, the son of Zeus and the Theban princess Semele. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fats had struck it rich singing songs way before Dad was born. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. She was born a week after Christian died.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even worse,I was a girl child—and a spotted one at that, because I was born with a skin condition called vitiligo, which caused me to look like a baby leopard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she tells them she was born and raised in Manhattan, his father shakes his head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I interviewed Jenkins, he and his family lived on Japan’s remote Sado Island, where his wife was born and where North Korean agents had kidnapped her. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Momma was die only one who wasn’t born in Flint so the cold was coldest to her. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How ridiculous, celebrating a birth date. I don’t even know the day I was born, and I sure can’t remember any of theirs,” he says, swinging his hand toward his kids. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Have you lived your life under a rock? Were you born of sheep? Do you know nothing of drums, horns, and pipes? Do you even sing?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“How about Henry Ford? He was born understanding how an engine should work. He just knew without studying it.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The baby, a boy, is born at five past five in the morning. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Matt saw nothing wrong with being born in a stable. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like it was the only time he could ever be born, the only time that’d ever made sense for him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The term "anchor baby" refers to a child born to a noncitizen mother in a country that has birthright citizenship, especially when providing an advantage to family members seeking to secure citizenship or legal residency. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Atalanta’s father, whatever his name was, when a daughter and not a son was born to him, was, of course, bitterly disappointed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All wild places were his home, thickets and forests and mountains, but best of all he loved Arcady, where he was born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which means the chance that a child born today will be gleaned between now and their five thousandth year on Earth is only 50 percent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t touched a drop since she was born. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Dutch Reformed Church, born in the Netherlands during the Reformation, had spread throughout Europe and around the world, and even eventually became the official religion of apartheid South Africa. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She was the oldest and most primordial of the Olympians, born from the blood of Ouranos churning in the sea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When something big is wrong—like when the twins were born so small and couldn’t breathe on their own—she lights our Caridad del Cobre candle and says her prayers in her own words. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Biafra is born! We will lead Black Africa! We will live in security! Nobody will ever again attack us! Never again!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My cells were born, or differentiated anyway, knowing how to do this kind of thing together. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small initial advantage that the child born in the early part of the year has over the child born at the end of the year persists. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But what would you expect of one born in America and his father from the North. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“No, I was born in Karachi. But I did live in Kabul for a number of years. Shar-e-Nau, near the Haji Yaghoub Mosque,” Faisal said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, workers were simply born into mill life and very few escaped it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that Alba entered the nightmare that her grandmother had apparently not seen on her astrological chart when she was born, and that Luisa Mora had seen in a fleeting premonition. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again he was excited about the completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and he stopped referring to me altogether because I hadn’t been born. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I felt the numb isolation of those days when I was just a little motherless kid, emptied of words, waiting to come through my door and be born. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her son had been born that summer, and she did not want to be traveling in November with a four-month-old and her little girl. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m the stupidest fellow that was ever born; you know that. I couldn’t remember to come back here even after you made up that special lovely rhyme for me.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Here I am born into the world in half the time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I could also tell you that the children here are born with teeth and gnaw on bird bones in their cradles.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Bach and Handel, the two musical giants of the eighteenth century, were born just eighty miles and four weeks apart and yet they never met. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ah even hated de way you was born. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The New Smokies learned the nooks and crannies of the ruins as if they’d been born there, until they could disappear in a heartbeat. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He imagined not only walking, but walking away, as far as he could from the place in which he was born and in which he had nearly died. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You will feel better when it is born,” he said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt, she was born here, and her husband is from America. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And the mysterious creatures must be strong to have rocked the box as they were being born. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was like a Victrola record that had been playing ever since I was born. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when Precious Coins was about to be born and the hospital miles away with bombs falling like hailstones, it was Mother alone who soothed the frantic household and quietly delivered the baby. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nearly all of us were born at home and not in hospitals, with only our families and a midwife present. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The lack of ghosts is eerie. Back in ancient times, Delos was sacred ground. No mortal was allowed to be born here or die here. There are literally no mortal spirits on this whole island.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Told you when I was born,” Cora said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It’s New Year’s Eve and Mrs. O’Halloran is anxious for this child to be born so that she can rush off to the parties and celebrations. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Six months before my big sister is born, my uncle Odell is hit by a car while home in South Carolina on leave from the Navy. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Piper wondered what that would be like—not even knowing the day you were born. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m a shepherd, and I have been to many places, but I come from only one place—from a city near an ancient castle. That’s where I was born.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

With the confidence born of a conviction of superiority, they performed well at schools. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of them pretend they're just getting fat. My mom said she went shopping the day before I was born, and nobody noticed. But that’s my mom and shopping.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed said, “You were born because Petey missed an opportunity? Shouldn’t there be a bunch of Missed Opportunities, then? Like millions?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

During my visit at Granny’s a sense of the two races had been born in me with a sharp concreteness that would never die until I died. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple years after I was born, my family left the mountains amid one of the many conflicts in the region and moved to a city in the valley below, Uvira. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen specials on volcanoes, shark attacks, dogs born with two heads, and the mummies of Egypt. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We are born knowing how to use language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today we all gain one year in age, no matter the date we were born. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Seven sons had been born to her, brave and beautiful young men, and seven daughters, the fairest of the fair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart gives a hopeful leap when I find a stack of pictures in the bottom bureau drawer, but they are all of Gram, Grandpa, and Dad right after he was born. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Autumn was born a few days earlier than expected, and I was relieved that we would not have the same birth date. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Some dictionaries now accept the upstart “to the manor born” as meaning privileged since birth. tongue in cheek. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let out a harsh little laugh that dies almost as soon as it’s born and say, “So I’m going to die, then?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“But I can tell you one thing. They’d be far beyond the abilities of an ordinary magician. You’d need to be incredibly magical to even use them. Like, born magician magical. Like Moreau himself or...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nay, not born lucky, as you shall bear — but lucky soon after and ever after. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The laughs and howls and hoots must have raised the roof of the tent five feet, all ’cause Sammy was naked as the day he was born. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“How can you not know where you were born!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa Dan wasn’t in the camps, thank God. He was born in America, just like you. That’s because my family came over to this country in the early 1900s, second class. Not steerage.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always thought that people born before Generation Freak were the lucky ones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I think no person be the zombie type, Jeremie. Nobody born fit to be a slave.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He aint wore out the name he was born with yet, is he. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to know whose baby girl I'll be when my mother's new baby comes, born where the sidewalks sparkle and me just a regular girl. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A week later, Dad talked Mother into letting him see whether new babies were born with a natural instinct to swim. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are a family—not perfect, not all the same, some rich, some poor, all kinds of religions and skin colors, some born in America and some immigrating here. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Dauntless- born initiates are used to doing this by now, so in a second it’s just faction transfers left. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bright and serious, Ismail Meer was born in Natal, and while at law school at Wits he became a key member of the Transvaal Indian Congress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were all babies once, right? This little guy doesn’t care what country you were born in or what religion you might practice or how much you weigh or who you might love.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“No, my grandma, she died from cancer right before Maya was born,” Grace said. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

All of Momma’s people had been stolen too, and taken to Jamaica where she was born. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby was born sheathed in light, with gold earrings in his ears and a gold breastplate on his chest, engraved with the emblem of the sun. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been born with the kind of biceps and muscled calves that, back in third grade, had earned me the nickname swoldger—a cross between swollen and soldier. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She later conceded that she had no basis for such an opinion and that without an autopsy and tests there was no way she could know if a baby had been born alive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The founder of the company was John Merrick, born a slave in 1859 to a black mother and a white father. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re like me and Zion. Sharing genes from the same parents. It’s science. DNA. Zion and me were born right after one another. Twins. Me first,” she brags. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I know the conditions under which you were born, for I was there. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Being born near barren desert had made him appreciate plants all the more, which was why he'd chosen to major in botany. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t had this much adrenaline since Peach had been born. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Sister was born the year you came here last...brother, the year before that.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t know that it was born of tales told years ago by a monk slipping into senility, or that it had been fed ever since by every source Lazlo could get his hands on. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A second daughter, Polly, was born that year, and as his business took root Harry bought a stump farm—160 acres of recently logged land southwest of town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“To be born into privilege,” she said, “is to be given the tools to replicate that privilege.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The crowd believes I was born knowing how to make them beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I had all but forgotten that I had been born on a plantation and I was astonished at the ignorance of the children I met. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been a sailor once, but when I was born, he gave up the sea and worked on the docks in New York. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I can hear the feedback when Dead Moon played “D.O.A.” at the X-Ray, even though I’ve never heard Dead Moon play live, even though the X-Ray Cafe shut down before I was born. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman said that he had been born with his eyes open, looking at people with the judgment of an adult, and that she was frightened by his way of staring at things without blinking. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mom remembers exactly what the nurse whispered in her ear when the doctor told her I probably wouldn’t live through the night: “Everyone born of God overcometh the world.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He lives with his mother and two younger sisters, including one born just ten months ago, from his mother’s current relationship. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was thirty-five now, had been married three times, and had given birth to ten children, all of whom had died soon after being born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The evening I was born, she was part of the group of women who went to get firewood. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, perhaps thinking he was over the worst of it, the same man was caught leaning slightly against the wall: a born target. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For thus is it spoken: Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.” The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was born right where this suitcase is. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Pax had been born with that same instinct as well, but distrust is no match for kindness administered consistently and unmeasured, especially in creatures new to the world. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Paul, the second of six children—three boys and three girls—was born in 1959 in a struggling mill town. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to hear a tale about an ordinary person for once. Not all of us are born princes.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Silly’s father had died shortly after she was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

As he followed Bill back to the others a wry thought came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Our baby brother, Roman, was born pale as dust. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, nobody gave the Night Brothers their magic. They were born magicians.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I was born with a fever. The midwives were certain I would die.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mother says healers are born, not made. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the baby Jesus was born, there was a brite bright light in the sky. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She got baptized more than once and was all the time coming home proclaiming that she’d been born again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are no records of Fannie’s life, but she was most likely born a slave on the Lacks property, and like most Lacks slaves who stayed on the plantation as sharecroppers, she never left. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They multiplied, and by the time I was born there was a whole herd of wild horses on the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

People usually asked her whether or not she had a belly button, since she had been born magically. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was curious to find out how this white woman, born in New York City, had become a storyteller. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

That was the hospital where I was born and where I had had my tonsils removed when I was in fourth grade and where Nikki was now. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you were born with it and I wasn’t.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the space of a year, from 1995 to 1996, the number of children born with the disease increased by 500 percent. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I’d like everyone else to be happy too. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it better to never have been born? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I was born in the shadow of that sugar mill,” Guy said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“When I was born?” the dragon asked, thinking hard. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t mean anything special, except that I was born during a hurricane. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Did you roll an egg on my face like that when / was born?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered about his own children; how most of them had been born but to sicken and die before they grew up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early 2004, Governor Rod Blagojevich announced a plan to mail one book a month to every child in Illinois from the time they were born until they entered kindergarten. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They were twins, and their birthday is February 19—the same day as Rere was born. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby was a girl, born in the second month of the new year. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Currently, as far as the government and my driver’s license are concerned, I was born on September 21, 1980...even though I was still resting comfortably inside my mom’s womb that day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After I was born in Las Pasturas she persuaded my father to leave the llano and bring her family to the town of Guadalupe where she said there would be opportunity and school for us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father’s remorse. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After all, she'd had these plans for Lily since she was born. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was there, in that little shack, that Hassan was born in the winter of 1964, just one year after my mother died giving birth to me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was born ten minutes before my aunt Julia, who seemed to have become some sort of a recluse that summer, rarely leaving her house and, according to my mom, “stinking to high heaven.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Jack was especially fond of Uncle Sigmund, his father’s younger brother, who was only seventeen when Jack was born. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because most of them had been born and raised in America. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If you were born in the 1820s you were too old: your mindset was shaped by the pre-Civil War paradigm. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And when family woman look him in the eye in the full of the moon, chile born bluegum. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In preparation for the interview, Ginzburg had read Elias Canetti’s classic work Auto-da-Fé, written eight years before Bobby was born. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His father disappeared before Chris was born; he was said to have died in Mexico. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“You are born with them. Your DNA weaves them into the marrow like spinners,” Miig answered. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The one born right after the colony opened? Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn’t fall on a Sunday because it’s no fun spending your birthday in church. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Whether they had been born free or in chains, they inhabited that moment as one: the moment when you aim yourself at the north star and decide to run. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I was born to wear jewels like this.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It made sense, Khalid being born right in the middle of all that celebration. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was already written when I was born what my life was going to be like. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine a child born on January 1 in the year 4 BC. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

By the time I was born, disturbing the tranquility of Anthony’s remarkable career as a three-year-old wonder-jock, the video cameras were fully trained on his every sprint, gasp, dive, and volley. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“If I die,” she murmured, “maybe I’ll be born again when the Rosen Association stamps out its next unit of my subtype.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Was it the same when I was born, or was it okay since I was the first? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

One of the boys with the trunk said, God, are they Americans? and Mam said,They are.They were born in New York. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Jared: Well, anyone born here is a citizen with full rights. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mother wants to sell the amethyst ring Father brought back from America, where he trained in the navy before I was born. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had always been; maybe he was born a millionaire. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how he got such a limp, if he was born with it or if something bad happened to him when he was young. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Kennedy was supremely frustrated, and out of this frustration was born a new strategy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"How could I remember that? I wasn't even born." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He said that if outsiders could understand what political prison camps have done—and are doing—to children born inside the fence, it would redeem his lie and his life. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As you know, our clan system teaches us how we were born and shows us how to grow. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She retired from teaching when I was born so that she could take care of me while Mom worked. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s more, this was Germany, the land where classical music was born. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

No one could prove he was lying since he’d been born on the home-house floor and didn’t have a birth certificate or social security card. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was not born with a hunger to be free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them had been raised—some even born—in refugee camps along the Pakistani border, and in Pakistani madrasas, where they were schooled in Shari’a by mullahs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It ain’t my fault,” she said, “that you was born a fool, and always done been a fool, and ain’t never going to change. I swear to my Father you’d try the patience of Job.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And while children born out of wedlock were common during this time, children who grew to manhood in less than two months were not. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This from a man who knew exactly where he’d been born and when and to whom. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Things will be better in the next life. Maybe we’ll be born as the sons of noble families. Maybe we’ll even finally find release from this world.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, Just born that way, I reckon. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their other children, who were born in the U.S., were normal and could translate. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already con-siderable uncertainty as to when he was born. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Damm’ee, sir, and blast your eyes! When I catch you—and find you I shall—I shall make you rue the day you were born!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In America, the injury is not in being born with darker skin, with fuller lips, with a broader nose, but in everything that happens after. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My brother was born in my mother’s second litter. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Three years later the rabbi married once again, and in 1929, two days before the stock market crash, Danny was born in the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One day soon after Brian was born, we were short on cash, so Dad pawned Mom’s big diamond wedding ring, which her mother had paid for, and that upset Mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in Mazar-i-Sharif and lived there until his father moved the family to Jalalabad when Farid was ten. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before I was born, she worked as an office manager for a doctor in town. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Plenty of time to decide after the baby is born,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wished I had been born a man, so I could have been a scholar. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The anthem ends, and President Snow begins to speak, to remind us all of the Dark Days from which the Hunger Games were born. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, When I was born, the doctor must have stamped “National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People” on my forehead; a stamp visible only to my teachers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It may be that being born prematurely is simply hurtful to a child’s overall well-being. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“This is my country! I was born here!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was a neighborhood peopled by fifth and sixth generation Americans, whereas in the Nolan neighborhood, if you could prove you had been born in America, it was equivalent to a Mayflower standing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He was born last year, a month early, after his long, bumpy upside-down ride in the Land Rover that moved our family from Kinshasa to the farm in Kimvula District. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked them that, they said that they didn’t kick you out, you’d just decided to “relocate” until the baby was born and you weren’t so “conspicuous.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"And I was sure of it! Why, a week before you were born, I had the strangest dream. We were all living on a farm, and a bull..." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Before I could say anything else, Holly said, Nobody chooses where they get born or who they get born to. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Everything. I’ve never heard any stories about her. She died before I was born.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“You were born in Village. It’s only those who try to go back to someplace that they left once.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She thought back to one of her earliest memories, when she was four years old and her sister Catherine was born. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There being few babies born that September, Alyce and the midwife spent their days making soap and brewing cider and wine. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And instead she saw this child, born and fully clothed, and herself as his mother, in a new coat! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I am really a Dragon, as she is a Dragon, both of us born in dragon years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are you from? I mean, where were you born?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We have no medical records because we were born at home and have never seen a doctor or nurse. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As much as Dad liked to tell stories about himself, it was almost impossible to get him to talk about his parents or where he was born. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He died before the twins were born—on the operating table, while his gall-bladder was being removed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex laughs again, incredulous, looking into the heavy circles under Henry’s eyes and the chewed-up bottom lip and, for the first time, seeing a man born to lead a nation. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Look, I wasn’t born yesterday. Stop messing with me.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was glad to know this fact because being from New York City where everyone’s born knowing uptown is north but not a whole lot else, I didn’t know anything about NNE vs. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, but how no one ever tried to explain, two children were born to this shapeless nothingness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were all of us new ones once,” he said with a smile, “except for the youngsters who have been born here.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t born with a hyphen linking me to Africa, any more than I was born with a desire to dribble a basketball or to write. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was the one people went to when a baby was born or when someone in the community died or when a couple wanted to get married or when someone needed food or money. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was certainty, born of some strange instinct. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t born an Assistant Pig-Keeper. For all you know, my father might have been a king. It happens all the time in The Book of Three.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Coincidently, the baby was born and died on Sissy’s fifteenth birthday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’d rather work for something than be born with a silver spoon in my mouth any day! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was born in the middle of World War II. From earliest awareness, my mother’s stories always timely, I watched for three airplanes parting. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the memory of her own birth pangs still lingering, she had knowledge now of what her mother had suffered when she, Katie, was born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he was born in Russia in 1845, Cantor spent most of his life in Germany. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Suzanne Slenn, my ballet teacher, said, “You were fortunate to have been born with naturally great extension and talent. I expect more of you because of that.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We know a cow died to provide them, but we don’t like to think about it. We pretend they came out of the pantry. Well, the villagers pretend the evil baby was born dead.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was born. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I was born and raised in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, a small middle-class town forty miles outside Philadelphia. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Where there is no likeness of experience it’s very difficult. I understand you were not born in America.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about how he’d had a big family when he was born. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Pap tolt me, “A good dog is the same as a good person; they’s born that way, not made. Ain’t no silk purse ever been made out of a sow’s ear.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

You spoke haltingly, and you hunched your shoulders, which made you seem smaller than me, though you were born a year before. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And when we found out that she had been born with six fingers on each hand and that there was a little bump where each extra one had been removed, we smiled. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was only a joke, Sticky. I’m hardly a queen, you know, and I’m not from England. I was born in a country called Zambia and brought here to Stonetown when I was a child.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, many times. Before the boys were born. After too. Your mother, she used to be adventurous then, and ... so alive. She was just about the liveliest, happiest person I’d ever met.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

So when Anne was born, in New York, Dad was not in the least bit disappointed, because he had known all along she would be a girl. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew your mom her whole life. She was born in that house, just like you were,” Mr. Patterson said, pointing at my house again. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But with everything underwater, and all kinds of unpredictable swirls and currents likely to have been born in the darkness, who knew where he might end up? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There we were, two girls from vastly different backgrounds and belief systems, born on opposite sides of the globe, and yet, in that moment, none of that mattered. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I was born in Birmingham and went back to Nigeria when I was six.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“At home on Nunivak Island where I was born, the plants and birds pointed the way for wanderers. I thought they did so everywhere...and so, great black Amaroq, I’m without a compass.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or you would have been born, but to another father.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She was born in her family's hut, as were her brothers and sister. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Schools with vastly greater financial resources, boasting higher-achieving students born to wealthier parents, cannot match the quality and accomplishments of Truman Drama. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The outcome had been rigged from the day they were born. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s genetic. That means you have to be born with it.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Three litters born in autumn—have you ever heard of such a thing before? Frith didn’t mean rabbits to mate in the high summer.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta was a black woman born of slavery and sharecropping who fled north for prosperity, only to have her cells used as tools by white scientists without her consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“No child is born a delinquent,” Mom said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I may not have been born in that country, but I'm hiding in a truck right now because of what happened there. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Only her brother, Warren, seemed to understand the hidden layer she saw in things, but then they had always had an understanding, since before he had been born. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Blake, who was from Maryland, was the only surviving child of eight born to former slaves, and like Chaplin he had learnt his trade as a vaudeville performer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I must have gasped, because the next second, Anise looks at me, and her face turns into such disgust that it’s clearer than ever that she thinks I never should’ve been born. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I thought you could use a little something,” she said, and gave me a goofy love look, like she was remembering the morning I was born. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She tells him her parents went to India once, to an ashram somewhere, before she was born. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in a lonely village called Ten Alders, high on the mountain at the head of the Northward Vale. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Darwin—gentleman biologist, and soon to be England’s most lauded natural historian—Wallace had been born to a middle-class family in Monmouthshire. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He and I had a Winnebago back in the day before your dad was born and your G’pop—” She paused. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

You were born to be a fisherman as the fish was born to be a fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had sent a big basket of fruit when Laurie was born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn't I have been the first Iranian in the history of the world born with a button nose? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After Reba was born, he no longer came to Pilate dressed as he had been on the woods’ edge and in the cave, when she and Macon had left Circe’s house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve mentioned that we are practically the same age—he’s three weeks older—and since the day I was born, our paths have crossed. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t there been, say, a rash of hurricanes in the months after Leah and I were born? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new video game comes out; a royal baby gets born. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to say, and I wasn’t about to tell him that all of the Zamborskas—including Dr. Zamborska’s mother and father—had been born in the United States. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two daughters were born in the same year as each other, 1688, but were not twins. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The following spring, on April 27, 1928, Zoe Stephanides was born, a large, healthy girl with the squarish head of her grandmother, a powerful cry, and nothing at all the matter with her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Born into this world of sorrow; born for suffering and hardship. Ai, there’ll be a little happiness, but more of hard work. Ai, ai.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And it’s all about something that happened a long time ago? Before you were born?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people are born to wield power and to exercise authority. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere she says, “You weren’t breathing when you were born.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Many popular accounts note the coincidence that ‘the’ Isaac Newton was born in the same year, 1642, that Galileo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was lovely and expressive and born of grim necessity. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was August 28, 1972—a month and five days after I had been born. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Biggest pile seen since I 'was born, Oh! Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child to be born at Randalls must be a tie there even dearer than herself; and Mrs. Weston’s heart and time would be occupied by it. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

And, of course, it stood here on the day I was born and will likely be standing on the day I die. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s a born Weller,” laughed Jo, as her parent gathered himself up, and her nephew tried to stand on his head, as the only mode of expressing his satisfaction that school was over. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was I not born with two good hands? he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cope was born more directly into privilege–his father was a rich Philadelphia businessman–and was by far the more adventurous of the two. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A terrible panic that had no name came over her as she realized that many of the sweet babies in the world were born to come to something like this old man some day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man is born, grows up and dies according to certain laws that have never been studied,” Quetelet wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once in a generation is a mind like that born. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And then about six thousand more had been born in the camps! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born of a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there, in the entry for April fourth, it listed twins born at seven forty-five a.m. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never been born again with the baptism and weeping and all that, but it couldn’t feel much better than being born again as a guy with no known past. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

My parents had four children before me, and I should have been born, plain and simple. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I had been born knowing how to hide what I felt. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I was just nineteen when you were born. I was eighteen when I married your father.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in 1876, during his seventh term, Garfield bought a farm in Mentor, Ohio, about twenty miles from where he was born. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She knew only the area she’d been born and raised in, and she couldn’t read a map. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the second of his three children was born, his sister had a stern talk with him about getting a legitimate job so he could watch his kids grow up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In some mutants, whole segments of the embryo disappeared, or the thorax or abdominal compartments were drastically shortened—analogous to a human fetus born with no middle or with no hind segment. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was just as black as I had been the day that I was born. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

When Pearl was born—on an unseasonably warm May afternoon, at the hospital, after fourteen hours of labor—Mia took the birth record card from the nurse. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I was born, I remember two voices speaking. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

This was before the twins were born, before Mama started her catering business. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Like our new life is about to be born as we move to Canarsie. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I remember when I was twenty-one. My father told me, ‘A man is born to die. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were California girls turned Muslim, born anew, in hijab and long skirt. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He looked as though he had been born middle aged. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you would be forgotten. It would be as though you’d never been born.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Well, I was born lucky, whatever my gaffer may say. There’s another wish come true! Where is he?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

All in preparation for the work they feel they were born for, missionary work in Africa. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that union would be born a race destined to hold the entire world under their sway. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you remember about that? That’s when you were born, Mr. Dawson.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he assumed command with the ease born of a long habit of authority. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Each was born in precisely the same place and within minutes of the other. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born on Halloween, and until I was eight years old my parents had me convinced that the candy people gave out when I knocked on their doors was birthday presents.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born a long time ago and is convinced that marriage is a woman's only real shot at happiness. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lately I keep seeing him in Lelia’s arms, the way he looked so different from her when he was just born, the shock of his black hair, the delicate slips of his eyes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wonder if I was born into the wrong family. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I was born with a massive tumor in the middle of my face and two deformed legs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Some African Americans who had been born as slaves were still alive, and could describe how they had lived sixty years earlier. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The days of Garland as a thriving commune were over long before I was born in 1994. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“His name is Yassen Gregorovich. He was born in Russia, but he now works for many countries. Iraq has employed him. Also Serbia, Libya, and China.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In a letter, White shared the news with Hoover, noting that he and his four siblings had been “born on this land.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Billy was born in 1922 in Ilium, New York, the only child of a barber there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when a girl is born, no one visits the parents, and women have only sympathy for the mother. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“The theory behind the camps was to cleanse unto three generations the families of incorrect thinkers. So it was inconsistent to allow another generation to be born.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She wept when they gave birth to daughters, knowing that to be born a woman meant a life of humble hardship. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From over there—New London—born there. My uncle’s in the service and two cousins. I guess we’re a kind of submarine family.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of us is born with a history already in place. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms suffers only from people who find him strange. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was born in Michael Reese Hospital on March 3, 1979, and lived in the Ida B. Wells all my life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard had not been born in Maryland, but he was working there, the summer that she met him, as a grocery clerk. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Being born halfway in and halfway out of the Civil Rights movement, I had questions: Was it an advantage or a dis-advantage? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The good part about my brothers being born was that people stopped saying, “All girls,” but I learned new grievances. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been her job to keep Mom relaxed while she was pregnant, and worry-free after the twins were born. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She told investigators that her son was born dead and never took a breath, despite her efforts to revive him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Both my parents were born here and so was I. Never been farther away than St. Phillips County. I have people in South Carolina, but I’ve never even been to visit them.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desdemona recalled her mother telling stories about strange infants born in the village. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was yet to be born for that day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Since I was born on his day, and as he was the village’s patron saint, I held him for the kin I never had. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or if you were born during a dry period, you could be named Drought. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I was born to destroy Neptune. I can sense...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You were born in Luxembourg in 1899. You came to live with Miss Thrush when you were sixteen years old, and have been here ever since.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I was born in Incheon, the year of 1940,” she says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My uncle Pedro had lost his wife long before I was born and he had no children. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the baby was finally born, Roberto, Trampita, and I were excited to see him, especially because we had worked so hard to get things ready for him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One January Thursday at two o'clock in the morning, Amaranta was born. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The norm is, people that are born with money have money, and people who weren’t don’t,” she said recently. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’s dark and soft and warm, somewhere between two and four a.m., one of those hours that belong exclusively to the newly born or the dying. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now of all of them who lived in these courts it seemed there was none wholly at peace and comfortable there except the small grandson who had been born to Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They drove past the bakery where Mom had worked before Cleo was born. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the third sip of soup he was asking me what the devil, was I really born on some other world—what was it like there—warmer than Gethen, everybody said—how warm? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mamani was born in France to an Iranian father and a Lebanese mother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Is it better never to have been born? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Most black babies were born at home in those days—rarely in hospitals. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Mrs. Richardson’s mother, Caroline, was born in 1931, things were less rural but no less idyllic. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t born last night, as my mother would say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I can see kids counting backward on their fingers, trying to figure when their grandparents or great- grandparents were born, when they came to America, if they would have made the Neck Cut. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexandra continued being the decaying shantytown it was before I was born. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was rich and nobly born and powerful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I needed him and he wasn’t there. He got crowned homecoming king the night she was born. He wasn’t even with me in the room.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then one day when she was five—long before Arjun was born—Nathan pointed her out to me as she played in the fields. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the year that evHéctor was born their fights grew more frequent and sputtered into our lives like water on a hot skillet. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We were still members there, though our attendance had dropped off significantly after the girls were born. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One of my good friends, David Maynard, had been born into a wealthy Bahamian family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“She’s the house manager. Has been since I was born. She’s like what we have now instead of a parent, kinda.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Chantal got it the worst because she was actually born in Haiti and she still spoke Creole. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Art was born around 25,000 years ago, when the subhuman Neanderthal evolved into our human ancestor, Cro-Magnon man. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

As reliably as I can learn, my mother died the same year I was born, the year of our Lord 1587, the twenty-ninth of Queen Elizabeth's reign. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange to me that someone who could influence the thoughts of others had been born with a personality that naturally drew people to him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My parents were both born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I guess. But it’s not like I was born smart like you and Kojo.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t. Lem Harvey’s born to trouble. He did pretty well while he was drilling the men; that let him work off part of his meanness. Now—heaven help us!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No! In that letter, Marcus said that he wanted me, before I was born. I wasn’t expecting that.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

All the children born or begotten in that year, and there were many, were fair to see and strong, and most of them had a rich golden hair that had before been rare among hobbits. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Z had already checked the records for February and March of the year Dallas and Florida were born. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

An Eastern concept, born in the Fertile Crescent a few centuries before the birth of Christ, zero not only evoked images of a primal void, it also had dangerous mathematical properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The dense hair on my arms was almost blond, and my eyebrow hairs weren't nearly as thick as the ones my sister had been born with. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I should have dumped you in an orphanage the day you were born. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone who had come to Village from elsewhere, all of those who had not been born here, had come from places with secrets. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A tough little hellion, with an overdeveloped underlip, he had been born like other babies and nursed at his mother’s great breasts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So, it's basically when you born without the brownness in your skin," she explained. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

One picture was of Mom in the hospital, cradling a newly born baby Laleh. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, they waited eight years after I was born to add another child to our family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was born when my parents were both twenty-six. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

De la O was born in Texas, part of a large Mexican American family making a living working in the fields. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The home of glorious smoke-blowing women had been born again, transformed into, of all things, a schoolhouse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it we had lain together, and our children had been born. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cutoff date for almost all nonschool baseball leagues in the United States is July 31, with the result that more major league players are born in August than in any other month. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Lawrences’ second son, born just after New Year’s Day 1941, was christened Robert, after Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Your mama sure makes a fine gingersnap. My mama always says she was born to manhandle a cast iron skillet but your mama was blessed with the lighter touch of a baker.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. de Roo was born in South Africa but one day she was told by the government to leave the country in twenty-four hours or she'd be thrown into prison. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The little parasite wasn’t even born yet, and Charlie was already rearranging his life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Did you know about him being a born magician?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I believe in knowing where your roots lie. That kind of thing shapes your identity so much. I was born right here in Shaker, did you know that?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. O’Connell gives me telegrams to deliver to Mr. Harrington, the Englishman with the dead wife that was born and bred in Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My father used to tease me about it, saying that when I was born he made my cradleboard out of the handle of a wooden spoon. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was shortly after Penny had been born, and she still had a good-size baby bulge. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I was born in China, in Taiyuan,” she said. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born on board. Never was asleep.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Those born in the last half of the year have all been discouraged, or overlooked, or pushed out of the sport. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Stuff I used to see back at protests before you were born. Tasers. Devices that would send out loud, piercing sounds.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was said that, when I was born, the sun was so revolted it went into hiding for a full month. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The SS-HJ division was composed of Hitler Youth who were born in 1926 and who met the strict SS requirements for height and physical fitness. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some people were born lucky and sailed on clipper ships. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She knows that she was named for Molly Molasses, a famous Penobscot Indian born the year before America declared its independence from England. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was born in Philadelphia at the turn of the last century, the son of a dentist from Russia. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Black and white babies were born in separate hospitals, lived their adult lives apart from one another, and were buried in separate cemeteries. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I can’t recall which scythe began that odious campaign to glean only those who were born mortal, but it spread throughout each regional Scythedom, a viral idea in a post-viral time. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I wished that I had been born into a trouble-free family. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby tried to live and practice his beliefs; he felt truly born again, and he was applying the same sense of discipline and reverence to the Bible that he had all his life to chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We have become elders together, and yet I remember when she was born. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I mean, they’re born liars. 9TH JUROR: It suddenly occurs to me that you must be an ignorant man. 10TH JUROR: What do you mean? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been a cop for as long as Khalil was alive, and I wonder if in some sick twist of fate Khalil was only born for this man to kill. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It’s enough to make me wonder if Kalinda is even really from the same mundane world I was born in. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And some children have diabetes,” Ben said, “and some have leprosy, some get eaten by tigers, some are born without arms, some get struck by lightning, and some use leaves for toilet paper.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An army is made of soldiers. These creatures were born to be weapons. They were born to serve the soldiers of Djel.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not every hockey player born in January ends up playing at the professional level. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My father knows important things, even if he isn’t “book smart” like my mother, who was a high school science teacher until Zack was born. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

More than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white girls received that year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Now it was official: the woman who was born on Aviation Day, born to be in the air, had died in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He was a shamanic outsider who was born to a virgin girl in a village far to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If I had been born a Native American in another time, I might have been lauded as a medicine man. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It had been that way since the very beginning of Garland in 1967, long before I was born. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t lying when I said my bar mitzvah was a tribute to my family killed during the Holocaust and the scores of relatives who never got the chance to be born. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

All the people who knew her were looking forward to the day when the child was due to be born, as they knew that it would be a most unusual child. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“He was fighting just as hard for those who had lived before as he was for those living at the time and those who would be born later.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

One entire cupboard was crammed with boxes of vintage breakfast cereals, most of which had been discontinued before I’d been born. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Its heroine was Sherry Nola, a girl conceived, born and brought up in sweltering luxury. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and Daddy and Betty Jean a long time ago, and Judy and David a year or two before I was born. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Adams was born, her mother had died. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was born in Braintree, twelve miles south of Boston, in 1735, the son of a farmer and shoemaker, who sent Adams to Harvard in the hope he might become a minister. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if she was born this way, or if something broke her along the way. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She is Roman Catholic, born on the coast of Brittany. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s so ugly, when he was born his mama thought he was a backward centaur—with a horse butt for a face.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘Why was she born in eight months? Answer me that.’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Thus, the concept of the Great Escalator Trade was born. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Calloway had escaped a provisional farm in upstate New York long before Magdalys was born, and she tried to be as nice to him as she could. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Dragon was born from an inkstone made of Fruitless Mountain, the heart of Jade Dragon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He did not know who he was, or what he was, why he was still alive, why he had ever been born. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Some men are born for great things, and others to help great men do great things.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

By the time I was born, my father worked at ‘clean’ jobs. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another flash of insight, born of the awareness that only makes itself known deep in the night, when the mind opens strange doors, I realize something else. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine her as a poor girl like Mabel Hatch, but perhaps even his mother had felt like she was born into the wrong family. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

What a hell of a time to be born, I thought. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Strong boy,” “Handsome just like his daddy,” folks been saying since the day I was born, but I never took a liking to the work Daddy did in the fields. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-two years old, born in Ireland in 1868; his family emigrated to the United States in 1871 and in August that year moved to Chicago, just in time to experience the Great Fire. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“If you had been born such, would you have been here now? Not you—” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed particularly unfair to them that white immigrants new to America, born in foreign lands, could vote and could find higher-paying jobs in manufacturing industries—rights that native-born blacks were denied. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But what about your real name? The one you were born with?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When you have an aunt who was only ten when you were born, sometimes she acts like an aunt and sometimes she acts like an annoying older sister. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When their light set out, we were younger, not even born. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The baby, Charles Waring Darwin, was born on December 6,1856. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said he, smiling—“and reason good. I was sixteen years old when you were born.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

At the Dark Mountain born from the mountain walked along the mountain I will bring you through my hoop, I will bring you back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My parents said that I was born with a sharp cry and a personality as prickly as an African hedgehog. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was born into a family of musicians in Moscow, the second-largest city of the Russian Empire after Saint Petersburg. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was born to a man like my father and a woman like my mother, and I had to save Vera from myself. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I said, “No, ma’am, I was born free in the Buxton Settlement, in Canada West.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

"It's a saying my husband used to tell me after I had one of the girls. Good bulls sire cows. I remember the night Fifi was born." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When he was a young man, long before I was born, Mamaji was a champion competitive swimmer, the champion of all South India. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then right after Reba was born he came and told me outright: ‘You just can’t fly on off and leave a body,’ he tole me. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

One summer in the late 1970s, long before Roy Eberhardt was born, a small but powerful tropical storm boiled out of the Gulf of Mexico and came ashore a few miles south of Coconut Cove. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could be born in a crowded, bustling city or in a rural area. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t do anything but wait until you were born so I could kill you and be done with it.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Other people are born with talents like yours. You’ve heard of them, I’m sure: seers, conjurers, makers of magic weapons. Most legendary figures have some sort of ability that makes them noteworthy. ” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the spring, wolf packs stay at a nursery den where the pups are born deep in the earth at the end of long tunnels. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his part, Norman Mackworth had been born in India, the son of a British eye surgeon who performed cataract surgery for locals. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He never questioned it before because Dad always said the old man had been a “nonentity” since before Dad was actually born. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She was born to great wealth in England. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Neither, child. This here is just the world, it’s how it is. You get born into it and...things are as they are...” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jam was born after the monsters, born and raised in Lucille, but like everyone else, she remembered. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Park left China and returned to North Korea in the summer of 2003, along with his wife and a baby son born in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Their mother had passed away shortly after Maeve was born; their father, when the children were nine and twelve. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My father’s father was so old he couldn’t remember when he was born. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

By the time she was twenty, she had had four children, all born dead. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This last fact made it possible to identify the hundreds of thousands of California mothers who had themselves been born in California and then to link them to their own birth records. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She had been born in Nigeria and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, though her family had moved to Maryland when she was a teenager. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I have indeed awakened and have only been born today. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in a house, a pretty ordinary house, right across the river from here, in Bridgeport. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had been born a generation later, or even a half generation, she surely would have gone on to college, but she worked as a secretary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That was the scariest sight I ever seen in all my born days,” Herbert Spencer said. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was born there, like his dad, but his mom’s from Ghana, which is where he learned futbol before they moved here. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

You can’t forbid people to be born— at least not yet. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swaying hypnotically a foot from his face was the biggest, strongest, most evil-looking adder that had ever been born. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva had been born in Brazil. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You just take this form and fill it out. Now you figure out what year you were born, and you put it down right here, and you remember it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After Harriot was born in 1856, Stanton wrote to Anthony that she was “very happy, that the terrible ordeal is passed & that the result is another daughter.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The third floor of his parents’ mansion is a suite for him, a perk of being the last born to empty-nesters. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He believed that children, like little monkeys, were born with certain instincts of self-preservation, but that the instincts vanished because babies were kept cooped up in a crib. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born seven months after they got married.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had always been something special about Boobie, even in the way he was born, on April 16, 1970, en route to St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston with a police escort. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Saturday afternoon a few months before the baby was born, I was curled up on our sofa, dozing. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then Hazel appeared next to him, swinging her big cavalry sword like she was born for battle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’ve no more notion where I was born than you have—if so much. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still, why should there be a law saying that only a person born in the United States could be president? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Pearl had been born they’d lived, by Mia’s count, in forty-six different towns, keeping their possessions to what would fit in a Volkswagen—in other words, to a bare minimum. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit had been a very late foal, born at the end of May 1933, but in January 1935, half a year short of his actual birthday, he was deemed a two-year-old, officially eligible to race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the beliefs of such societies, a child is not born from the sperm of a single man, but from the accumulation of sperm in a woman’s womb. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never knew with these fellows who'd made their money and weren't born to it. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The average person doesn’t understand that a professional athlete isn’t born, she’s made. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s like with your brother. It’s just how he was born.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I remember the day she was born,” said another. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hall was born into a working-class Catholic family in Christchurch, New Zealand, the youngest of nine children. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone says come and he comes, and he never asks, this idiot born of idiots, ‘How much will you give me if I come!’ The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And Kalinda and I, maybe we’ve been alive too long too, and the only animals on this Earth who really understand life are the insects who are born and mate and die within seconds. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

What did being born black have to do with excellence? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Papi said by the time the new baby is born we will have electricity.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“No. My mother died soon after I was born.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It would’ve been great if I’d been born at exactly 10:10 in the morning or at night, but I wasn’t. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I am born on a Tuesday at University Hospital Columbus, Ohio, USA- a country caught between Black and White. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jake leaned closer and whispered: ‘And there’s the other sign. The sign you know. For I was born with them.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As a child, I celebrated my birthday on September 22, but my parents eventually revealed to me that I was born on October 10. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“From when I could see. Long before you were born.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Puppies born of treated mothers died within three days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, continued the monster, it was a kingdom, small but happy, for the king was a just king, a man whose wisdom was born out of hardship. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

For those of us who were born here, America is literally the only home we’ve ever known. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My daughter does not know that I was married to this man so long ago, twenty years before she was even born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Yeoman Pocock was all but born with an oar in his hands. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Americans are arguably more likely than they were thirty years ago to end up in the class into which they were born. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The birth date on the card showed that “Janice” had been born just two years before me, though from his appearance, I would have guessed that he was at least ten years older than that. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way Laurie seemed to come out of a dream—born the living child of a father five months dead. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve sort of known each other since I was born,” he laughed, smiling at me again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

When Akira was only a baby, Mama had said, “He was born sad.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the early eighties, before I was born, he opened one of the first integrated restaurants in Johannesburg, a steakhouse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With the precision born of practice, a night rider threw the rope over the thick, sturdy branch with a single toss. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“They say he was born with his eyes open,” whispered Uncle Alfred. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was telling a story about how he became friends with another boy before they were born. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Edward Baker Lincoln was born on March 10, 1846, in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were both born on the floor of the home-house like their father, grandmother, and grandfather before them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Kabuo had fished as well as he could but he was not really born to fish. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The number means she was the thirty-fourth cow born in 1995. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Hazel climbed on his back like she’d been born to ride. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“If that ain’t being born with the lucky eye, I don’t know what is.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she explains how she was born with her face like that. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t take much accessing to know he left just after the youngest daughter was born, and it’s been a struggle for their mom ever since. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Obviously I should have registered her when she was born, but I didn’t. So here we are.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I done told you time and again to give me the money when you get paid, and let me do the shopping—’cause you ain’t got the sense that you was born with.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“No, honey. He knew I was expecting a baby, but he never saw you. He had to leave before you were born.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Each new emperor was born in one panaqa but created a new one when he took the fringe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I hadn’t sweated it. I told him that this was money that had just come to me for being born into one class, while he was born into another class.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was practically no one on those teams born after September 1, which doesn’t seem to make any sense. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The fifteenth of January came, and the colt was not born. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been present when my other sisters had been born. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“King Argaven’s child was born this morning, and died within the hour.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A public journal, testifying to those who will never die and those who are yet to be born, as to why we human beings do the things we do. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ve read quite a lot about China. You born in China?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I often tell people I was born in Birmingham, halfway in and halfway out of the South’s violent Civil Rights era. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We're the only ones in Orléans born unique and full of color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeka was as good as her mother, anyway, since it was Aunty Ifeka’s breasts that she and Kainene had sucked when their mother’s dried up soon after they were born. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

With her light skin, semiblond hair, pale seagull blue eyes, she could easily pass herself off as something other than a woman born and raised in East Harlem. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You guys have been geniuses since kindergarten. You were born smart.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of activity student government was born to do. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It looked exactly like the cabin on the Brodas plantation where she was born. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time a new baby was born, they’d always go out to the Holy Grove, and pray to Saint Gwenforte, the Holy Greyhound, to keep that baby safe. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had been born with his eyes open. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

By all accounts those storytellers, born Black and male before the turn of the twentieth century, should have been ground into useless dust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In such an alternate Earth, Leonardo and Einstein would, of course, never have been born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I confess it was conceived in delight, and I grieve to think that it will be born into misery!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

People in the contracting phase would live their lives backward: they would die before they were born and get younger as the universe contracted. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the tide of chemicals born of the Industrial Age has arisen to engulf our environment, a drastic change has come about in the nature of the most serious public health problems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Nutmeg. It grows on Grenada, the island where I was born.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Truth is, even though I was born and raised here, I’ll never be truly American to her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mom said we had ridden on the train once, going up to Chicago for Aunt Cecily’s wedding, way back before Susie was born. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes,” said the King, “I wish you had been born forwards like other people. What with Victorians and Mafeking Night...” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did she grow up in Los Angeles, or was she born somewhere else? I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was born Clementine, and I loved that name until I turned ten. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But after Sabrina had been born a few months ago, our space talks had always been cut short. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the babies of the period were conceived in Model T Fords and not a few were born in them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What did I look like when I was born?" Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Each child is born with different strengths and abilities, including different types of creative thinking. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I say, “So maybe it’s not so much that other thing. The weak moment born of guilt. It’s kindness. Like you said. Like give somebody a break, is all. And you did.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In the early 1990s, just as the first cohort of children born after Roe v. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was a show that was created even before I was born, about a really old, really expensive lawyer named Matlock who solved criminal cases for a ton of money. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were pioneers in the field of infertility treatments, and were responsible for the first test-tube baby born in the United States. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We don’t have to be taught to like sweet foods—we are born liking them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father started the school three years before I was born, and he was teacher, accountant, and principal—as well as janitor, handyman, and chief mechanic. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When asked about a dead friend who had been born and raised in the United States, Biddle explained that he hadn’t really died of the fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Then after the baby was born, he couldn’t bear to leave her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Way back before Mami was even born, Chucha had just appeared at my grandfather's doorstep one night, begging to be taken in. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Right after I was born, Mom and I went to live in Grandpa Ted’s guesthouse, a one-room studio where I felt safe and cozy. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Before I was born, when there were lots of young children growing up in the community, all those diapers used to be fastened by squares of duct tape. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It was because this was where people were born and born and born until finally the result was you, drinking a Coke in the Jitney Jungle. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Pa tells me that when I was born he saw a bright red aura surrounding me, which means I will be a passionate person. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is how some people in rural areas of Zimbabwe are born. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And Andrea not only knew how babies were born, she knew exactly how she, herself, had been born. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will be the first child born in our colony. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know he would never sire cubs, never have the ferocity and energy that he was born to. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The wife of the eldest son was faithful and she conceived and bore and conceived and bore regularly and faithfully, and each child as it was born had its slave. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I was born with the devil in me,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

That it had been written in the soil of Romania long before I was born. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Katrina was a full year before I was born, but we learn about that hurricane in class and have a moment of silence every year on the anniversary. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

If you are born poor here, it’s no lasting shame. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean Jupiter? You were there when he was born?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You’ll have to write to the Pope, missus, to find out what year this child was born in and I’ll save this dress for next year. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in Umbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Human beings, born ultimately of the stars and now for a while inhabiting a world called Earth, have begun their long voyage home. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he seemed cast from bronze, not born like a mortal man. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It makes trouble and is born and then you look after it and get fond of it maybe. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I can see it, that there won’t ever be any babies born alive. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He certainly does not know the conditions under which I was born and had to live for eighteen years. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear—civilization’s fear of nature, men’s fear of women, power’s fear of powerlessness. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One baby dead, one born with a caul, and one trying to grow twelve fingers—it was enough for all the would-be mothers to go to Charity. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ophie rubbed her eyes once more, climbed out of the tiny bed her father had built for her when she was born, and went to wake her mother. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“This is three days before you were born—your mom’s pregnant with you here.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The children born in the wake of the abortion ban were much more likely to become criminals than children born earlier. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder if that’s what it’s like for people born with eight toes or a weird birthmark; if you always forget you’re different until you see a photo of yourself. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There’s always babies to be born and suckled and wiped, and worried over. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Well then, we could say that I was born in Salem.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She called me right after you were born. She said you were so pretty it hurt her eyes to look at you.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay again on the bed, his mind whirling, with images born of a multitude of impulses. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are times when I wish I had never been born, But I will be healed at Saint Winifred’s well. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Eventually, when the region got small enough, it would be spinning fast enough to balance the attraction of gravity, and in this way disklike rotating galaxies were born. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Minotaur was born Minos did not kill him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You always were the protector, even though I was born first. It’s time to let me take on my responsibility, Janey. It’s way past time.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Venezuela is where I was born and where I lived until I was twelve years old. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There were probably more than five rabbits in the litter when Fiver was born, but his name, Hrairoo, means “Little Thousand”—i.e., the little one of a lot or, as they say of pigs, “the runt.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Belonging was drinking and laughing with the platoon, dancing with blond women, buying drinks for buddies born in Cleveland, Ohio. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few years before I was born he had settled the family on a twenty-two-acre farm near Watsonville, California, raising apples, strawberries, and a few vegetable crops. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, the village can’t move the day after a baby is born, so they had to call another meeting of the elders. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I like it this way,” I said, patting the tops of overgrown carrots, their orange heads pushing through the earth as if about to be born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On September 22, 1842, just a week after they moved into Down House, Emma wrote in her diary “very feverish, violent headaches” and on September 23, “Mary born.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To force traders to pay, North Korean security forces invented a new twist on labor camps of the sort that Shin was born in. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If Agulen could have seen him, another pottery sculpture would have been born. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, states that arise quickly, just like all the other natural things that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and branches and will be wiped out by the first adverse weather. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene interjected, proving he wasn’t born yesterday. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It's been a week since they were born and they already look like three-year-olds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

So far as he was concerned, she might have been born in her severe, her sexless, long and shapeless habit, always black or gray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“There’s no rule that says you have to stay in the place that you’re born,” she said. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

This idea was first argued by Aristarchus, born on Samos three centuries after Pythagoras. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime after their first son was born Carl bought his own boat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I used to. Way back before you were born, my family lived at Garland. Rain would want you to be with someone who understands.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I like it. You’re a born liar, so I shall keep you here—for the time being—until I tire of your stories.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I was little, I thought people were sending up rockets and cherry bombs because of me—hurray, Lily was born! The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this town, so old, from the year 1926, long before any of my men were born. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

These babies were born into a country where, unless you belonged to the Ceaugescu clan or the Communist elite, life was miserable. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When he was a kid, before the twins were born, he would have moments of complete terror that overtook him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

You were born knowing how to do this. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It’s strange that something she was born with, that’s of no choice of hers, is now the sole thing that defines her in the eyes of others. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Those are the ones who were born last night,” she said. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had not been born with that name. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Why is it that some people are born into fantastic situations and others wait their whole lives for a break? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked hard and saved every cent he could until he was able to bring Aunt Hinda, her husband, and the daughter since born to them to Kansas City. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Below her name is a quote from Maya Angelou: “I believe that every person is born with talent.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly this also was clear to him: he, who was in fact like one who had awakened or was newly born, must begin his life completely afresh. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

To put that in perspective—World War II ended eleven years before the first female pilot for British Airways was born. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Years later, shortly after his daughter was born, Henry called our house one night in tears. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s her journal, starting from the day you were born, Todd.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The pig couldn’t help being born small, could it? If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

When the third one was born she could not turn her head to the side or even properly suckle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the bag of presents and make my way to the house where my father was born. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The way Maniac fit in, you would have thought he was born there. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, yes, the moment you’re born, your death comes into the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She told me once that back-sleepers were the leaders in life, born performers or exhibitionists. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

About four months after Lill was born, when Mother went to bed early one night with a cold, we were sure a new brother or sister would be on hand in the morning. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in the hill country of Texas to the daughter of a single mother and the son of Mexican immigrants, all of them dirt poor—luxury travel is still a luxury. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Like all CFers, I was born terminal. Our bodies make too much mucus, and that mucus likes to get into our lungs and cause infections, making our lung function de-teri-orate.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Then shouts, “The three hundred you tried to con off me! I wasn’t born yesterday.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my father had not gone to France in 1918 and collected a hip full of German shrapnel, Caroline and I would never have been born. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Way I saw it, Mr. Paine was saying all people were the same, that no one deserved a crown or was born to be higher than another. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Tilly was born and the mother flowed with milk again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had wanted to find out which Indian group he was born into, but he took the question another way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Monday used to say I was born in the wrong decade. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Shadow tuned the radio to an oldies station, and listened to songs that were current before he was born. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

That people living, say, in Boston probably enjoyed medical treatment superior to what was available to anyone born in Cange spoke to the heart of “the great epi divide.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Merit has replaced the old system of inherited privilege, in which parents to the manner born handed down the manor to their children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I lament sorely that I was born to poverty,” he once told a friend. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her name was Zalika, which in the Swahili language means ‘born to royalty.’ Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When their next child was born, on March 2,1841, it was a girl, Anne Elizabeth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swarmed into the house, furiously cleaning the kitchen, preparing meals, and taking phone calls with the efficiency born of experience and instinct. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are new stars born, and if so, wouldn’t that mess up the count? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think I have the wits I was born with?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton later wrote that when she was around Mott she “felt a new born sense of dignity and freedom.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She made only two lasting friends in Las Pasturas, Ultima, for whom she would lay down her life, and Narciso, whose drinking she tolerated because he had helped her when her twins were born. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like it had been when Peach was being born, like her body was working separately from her brain, and she closed her eyes and tried to breathe. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In addition, since humans are born underdeveloped, they can be educated and socialised to a far greater extent than any other animal. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

All kinds of things, like when he was born and did he know how to swim and what he did in the Overland. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My young mother, younger than I remember her, as young as she must have been once before I was born. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you say you’ve been like this since the day you were born?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to her that the whole world changed in between the time that Laurie was born and graduation day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus was born “The Game of the Century,” as it was dubbed by Hans Kmoch. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Jerome died in the city. Chicago. The same city where Emmett was born.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“I somehow didn’t picture him with a family at all. Funny, no? What did I think? Maybe I just imagined he was born fully formed, like that goddess from the head of Zeus.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Other people will soon follow suit, and a fad will be born and thrive for a while despite its baselessness. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And therefore, sometimes for fifteen minutes in a row, Mrs. Beale was seen doing something she hadn’t done since the little ones were born: nothing. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I wished that I had been born into a different family. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you aren’t born with every advantage, you learn to take your chances.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The woman had been a palace fixture since she’d been engaged as a wet nurse when Aurelia was born, and she had been interfering and even criticizing ever since. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s great power in tears born of anger.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

They were ashamed, she told me, ashamed and angry with her for eloping with someone from an even lower caste than the one she’d been born into. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But you can be sure of one thing: Both of them wanted a girl to be born next time. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, when Tyler was born twenty months later, the birth took place in a hospital. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you are. Today, you reminded me of me. Yet, still without question, you. Watching your focus, your joy, I knew you were born to fence.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was born in the Year of the Dog. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re so ugly, when you were born the doctor smacked your face instead of your butt.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

We want to know what they’re like—what kind of personalities they have, or how intelligent they are, or what kind of lifestyles they have, or what special talents they might have been born with. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The older of the two was born in Bucharest, Romania, on September 22, 1902. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“In Sanskrit, it means born of an anthill.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought babies were only a lot of trouble after they were born. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean to suggest, of course, that every software tycoon in Silicon Valley was born in 1955. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

How a self-made man should always say he was born in something like a log cabin, preferably with no running water. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black Dog was the son born of Uncles second wife—Uncle had taken more than one wife, as was the custom. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not use one bit of the good sense he was born with. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

More generally, it’s essential to keep an open mind about how to diagram a sentence rather than assuming that everything you need to know about grammar was figured out before you were born. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

"But then again, I was born with it. It's a gift from God, and those of us who have it are very special people." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the Wampanoag confederation, one of these quicksilver communities was Patuxet, where Tisquantum was born at the end of the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How wonderful was Brooklyn, she thought, when just being born there automatically made you an American! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

—When you were born, I wanted to give you something my father had tried, but failed, to give me—a name to be proud of. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I tried to take a broader view: The people who shot the bullets were part of a cycle of hate that they had been taught since they were born. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“But you were born here. I thought all Venetians love boats.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Few men are born to lead. The rest are born to follow," he tells Helmuth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The hand I held when my goddaughter was born, and the many mornings and evenings after Christian died. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That was what her brother was born for. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The black boy is born in Daytona Beach, Florida, and his mother abandons him at the age of two. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“All this time, I thought the letters were MS. For Mississippi, where my grandmother was born.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been jumping out of trees since before you were born.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Weren’t Frank and Malachy born to it in America where everyone has it? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I know the conditions under which you were born, for I was there. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Probably not till the baby was born and the estate settled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that my colleagues upstairs would condemn my proposal, and that would kill my initiative even before it was born. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was a summer when the sun never shined. This is before you were born. Fog came in on the Fourth of July and didn’t leave until Labor Day.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I was born in the country nineteen hundred and twenty. Born here, raised up here, always lived here, and gonna die here, I'm sure," he said, and then winked at Lindsey. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

When I was born, my mother told him that he could name his first grandson. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I was born on March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Ill. U.S.A. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was born Jewish, but became an agnostic when he was a teenager, partly because of all that had happened to him as a child. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kunthi’s child was born a few months before mine, a fine boy who nearly took his mother’s life in exchange for his own. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah heard her and added hastily, “She died years ago, when he was born.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a baby is born in the village, it’s a big celebration. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The link was born on the night when he casually mentioned Colonel Aureliano Buendía and Gabriel was the only one who did not think that he was making fun of somebody. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"That girl gave me more trouble getting born than any of the others. And the funny thing was she was the last and smallest of the four. Twenty-four hours in labor." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Yes, some of us were born to be punctuation vigilantes. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

They were young children when the war was declared, or not even born yet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For example, lambs are born in the spring. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The first of Sam and Rosie’s children was born on the twenty-fifth of March, a date that Sam noted. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mass incarceration, like Jim Crow, was born of racial opportunism—an effort by white elites to exploit the racial hostilities, resentments, and insecurities of poor and working-class whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Caroline had been born in America, something that she very much took for granted. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

If we were born with all these knacks inbuilt, automated like ants, we would surely miss the variety. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Roger,” she said, “do you know when these young men were born?” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But often there was truth at the heart of local legends—people who had been born with gifts that their countries didn’t understand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even before she was born, Ni'vea had known she was not of this world, because she had already seen her in dreams. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m stuck with the character I was born with, and yet I’m sure I’m not a bad person. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But before he was freed, he fathered many children, all of them born into slavery, including a daughter named Henrietta Pleasant—the great-aunt of Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The thought of the simulation being privatized and homogenized by IOI horrified us in a way that those born before its introduction found difficult to understand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Though he was technically now simply a One—every newchild born his year had become a One at the Ceremony—she calculated the months from the day of his birth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I fell into it out of old habit. I'm a country wight meself, born and bred in Yorkshire. Judging from your speech, your master must be a South County man." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at my sister, Cecilia, and said: “You were born a little too early.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Dad sometimes joked that the hospital where I was born must have accidentally swapped babies because I look nothing like the rest of my family. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could have been born millions of years apart, but we were able to meet each other and fall in love. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tom, who was born in 1881, was the third of their five children; among them was Doc, the youngest, and Dudley, Tom’s bruising older brother with whom he was particularly close. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was like he was born an adult, a father, a doctor. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t make it back in time, she would be voiceless until dark fell and a new hundred were born in her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I haven’t had a nap since Kindra was born in 1957, but with these hours—eight to three—I could have one every day if that was my idea of a fine time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He asked me to feed him jelly beans as we drove, and a friendship was born. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I guess kids born back in 1752 in Italy had nothing else to do but learn piano and organ, so Clementi started when he was six. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She is also from Köln, the city where I was born, and she knew my parents. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Suppose you are a Libra—that is, born between September 23 and October 22. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thoroughbreds are placed in age classes according to the year in which they are born, rather than their birth month. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he asks, I speak to him in Spanish, the language that rolls off my tongue like I was born knowing it. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One infant in one hundred babies is born with moles. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember it, because it was before I was born, but I wonder if perhaps that was a turning point. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you think I twisted your foot! I wasn’t even born when it happened.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was born, my hair was a ridiculous shock of black. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had been one year old when Grace was born, and had gone into foster care a few days after her parents brought her home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Middle name? First name? Rank? Where born? What class? What corps?” and so on. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Out of the chaos and confusion, the evenly spaced octave was born and we have lived with that huge shift in Western music ever since. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Muntu does not mean exactly the same as person, though, because it describes a living person, a dead one, or someone not yet born. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the baby was born, Henry joined a law firm in Boston, and Elizabeth alternated between living there with her husband and in New York with her parents. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, so tiny that, as his mother told him years later, he would have fit into a quart mug. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Improved environment and education may better the generation already born. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brook is back from visiting her difficult sister and the babies who are finally born now. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling as they did, she thought the family might be glad to give away the baby when it was born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was born in the 1880s, her parents in the 1840s. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He’s very radiant,” said Fern, remembering the day he was born. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

As we run, she yips and wags her tail, which is really just a stump because someone cut it off when she was born. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The canal showed the blurred reflections of the houses, just as it had done long before Prosper had been bom, before his parents and even his grandparents had been born. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Were they born that way? Or did you work them so much that their arcana couldn't function anymore?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He and Farzana moved their things into the hut in the backyard, where he was born. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon we went to see a baby born. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as the chicks were born, the sexers hurried to separate the males from the females. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now let me tell you about a man who was born in that century, and I think you will begin to have your answer. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

This is the world Nguyen Tat Thanh was born into in 1890. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But an objectivity of vision was being born within me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know he didn’t even drink after she was born and that was a miracle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t. This is where my dad lived before John and I were born. We come on the weekends.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I would’ve liked to try my hand at teaching. If I hadn’t been born like this.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s aunt Rose and the rest of his family all lived up north, and Mama’s people were dead and gone long before Ophie had been born. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There is a lovely story in Sanskrit, Sen added, about a frog that is born in a well and stays in the well and lives its entire life in the well. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was born free — free in every way that I could know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before he was born, I was camping with Hugo in Ngorongoro Crater. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was going through a second childhood; a new sense of the limit of the possible was being born in me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly. It’s like, not enough redheads are having babies with other redheads. So we’re just not being born anymore.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s my newest story. I was born like this. The truth is totally boring so I make up stories for fun. I have lots of them if you’d like to hear.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That fall in the false warmth of a Brooklyn Indian summer, Katie sat on the stoop and held her sickly baby against the bigness which was another child soon to be born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said so yourself just last night: I’m an Okojo. I was born to be a warrior. It’s in my blood, same as it’s in yours. It’s in our roots. Kutoka mzizi, remember?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be responsible for every little thing, every infant born, every leaf falling from every tree, every wave that breaks onto the beach, every ant on its journey. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Then why did my father—who is a very black man—try to kill me before I was even born?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gistan and Stuck, we close, but not like it is with somebody knew you from when you was born and you got to manhood at the same time. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, where her father had been a “checker for Ford automobiles.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The virus is a catastrophe for a pregnant woman: the child is aborted spontaneously and is usually infected with Ebola virus, born with red eyes and a bloody nose. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The immigrants could be saying that we were born on Gold Mountain and have advantages. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper had heard that each giant was born to oppose a particular god, but there were way more than twelve giants gathered in the Parthenon. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When we were born we were blank pieces of paper; nothing had been written yet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What made it even more depressing, old Spencer had on this very sad, ratty old bathrobe that he was probably born in or something. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Martin had thrived at them all, always with that superior smile of people who were born to belong and excel. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

People born that year were deep thinkers and hard workers, just as she was. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You have to show me proof that you were born in this country,” the man said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“When you were born, didn’t someone give you a name?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

If Huygens was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Boyle was born with a canteen of cutlery in his. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was born ambitious to be a great cook, way back in another time, way back in America, which was now across the ocean. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She wondered if this rebellious streak was the reason why “so many people remark that I should have been born a man.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Moss liked Mrs. Torrance, who was born and raised in Oakland, just like he had been. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Against nothing, Captain. It’s a good, quiet green town, a lot like the old- fashioned one I was born in. I like the looks of it.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Apatan was born in Manila, and he still went to visit once a year. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was only after the baby was born that I learned of the birth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We might all have to strip down to the way we were born, to keep ourselves from drowning. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We had shared this room since the day I was born. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He told me that he and Mom had their first argument on the day I was born. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Extra bags of rice delivered to one house signaled a coming feast; a normally sober man stumbling home drunk one night might mean that a son had been born. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

My mom, who is of Persian descent, was born and raised in the States. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Some of the prison’s inmates seemed bad through and through, the devil born in them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Every sheep is born with a tongue that lets him go ba ba ba and there’s a great lack of tongue in this head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Eighteen months later his sister was born, and five and a half years after the birth of his sister, his brother was born by Caesarean section, both in that same hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Baba, I read Dr. Schneider’s biography in the waiting room. He was born in Michigan. Michigan! He’s American, a lot more American than you and I will ever be.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was born and raised in the woods; it’s the only life he knows or cares to know. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were three calves born when they corralled them, and two of the cows looked as if they would calve within a few days. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Linda had come from the Other Place long ago, before he was born, with a man who was his father. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire black community where he was born had raised the money for his tuition. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He told them that all men were born equal. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd been born there, and though my parents had immigrated to the US when he was little, Iraq had always remained home for him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Shin never came in contact with a classmate who had been born outside the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Man is born to sorrow as the sparks fly upward. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As human beings, were born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Wait until a couple of weeks after her kid is born. Give them a show.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, provided we survived whatever tribulations we were about to face, I could always go and find my parents in a few decades, once they were born—but what would be the point? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She never knew if she should say where she was born or the last place she lived. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It’s them, but much younger, before I was born. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And in his brain was born sharp appetite for the future—a pleased warm anticipation, as though the coming minutes and weeks must bring delight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline had been born without her left forearm. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“So now we’re supposed to find out when somebody was born? Who? This is ridiculous!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She was born with a gift,” Hestia said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“No one born this side of the Elmuthaleth has ever seen what lies beyond it. But that is about to change.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“My father was born in England, and he was a good-looking man,” she began. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But unlike theirs it was full of little swirling currents of intention that eddied and broke off and drifted about, to disappear as new ones were born. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My father and my mother were also Norwegian, but because my father had a business in England, I had been born there and had lived there and had started going to an English school. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Two fine sons. They aren’t alike. Each one born separate in his own sack.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all a scam, remember? There's more than enough food in the world, especially now that there aren’t enough babies being born.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m supposed to be free. I was free, born free!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“What a beautiful day to be born in!” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

According to the linguistic school currently on top, human beings are all born with a genetic endowment for recognizing and formulating language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even know the woman who had given it to her when she was born, an old college friend of her mom’s. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Each time someone was born or died, we had the preacher put it inside the Bible. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pull into the parking lot of this tall brick building that seems like it’s been around since before my grandparents were born. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“But that’s only because she was here first, you know; she was already in there when I was born.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“At least I will not die without a struggle, but in some great deed of arms which men yet to be born will tell each other.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people never left the counties where they were born, he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I had a wealthy father, and many other sons were born to him of his true lady. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was around four years old when she was born, and I remember this tiny, squirmy baby girl with a big, beautiful Afro of soft curls appearing in our home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the Cambodian culture, New Year’s always falls in April, which means that all the children born before New Year’s become a year older. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How lucky we are to be born in the ‘A’ nest don’t yew think, and wouldn’t it be awful to be one of those old B’s.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christina wanted Ferdinand’s horoscope to be cast, but she was not sure when he had been born and offered two alternative dates more than a year apart: 19 July 1548 and 30 July 1549. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Because he could go now, run off if he wanted to and leave it all behind, he felt a certain sense of power, a power born of a latent capacity to live. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because it was really in Poland, or, more accurately, in the Slavic countries of eastern Europe, that Danny’s soul had been born. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She died the day I was born and now I’ll be buried next to her. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And it’s not like my mother and father were born into wealth. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And a good thing too, because it wasn’t so long before Novella was born. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those born in the last quarter of the year might as well give up on hockey too. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She held his eyes with the steady look of command that she’d been born to. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She saw him when he was born and even then loved him and decided he should be hers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never knew if she should say where she was born or the last place she lived. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Here was my own dad, telling me he was sorry I’d been born. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I have known him since he was born. He’s not very old, you know. I think he will do what I ask.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Carl came from old-time island stock; his grandfather, Bavarian born, had established thirty acres of strawberry fields on prime growing land in Center Valley. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’ll see. It’s really a name I had before I was born in this life.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, I’m the odd one out, the outsider, not really part of this community where I was born and have lived all my life. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Well, she was American, born twelve years ago in Columbus, Ohio, and she had never lived anywhere else. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He told her that he could see that she was highly born and blessed by good fortune. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was born an hour after you left this morning.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only Dorian had been born a soldier, not a reader. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby had heard that Mr. Ages was not truly a white mouse; that is, he had not been born with white fur, but had turned white from old age. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Something I did? You said she got worse when she was three. That’s when I was born. Was it me?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw your next-door neighbor, the lady whose husband died before we were born and who sometimes let us swim in her pool. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was a “joiner,” a “born leader”; she was not and stopped attempting to be. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were born in County Cork—we still have family there—but they were always too poor to make the trip back. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t care how good he’s been to her since the day she was born. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Because she was born that way,” Joy to the Heart said with pride. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Auntie,” he said softly, “what did she look like before I was born?” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, she was probably still getting used to her being born. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A person’s indentured status did not pass to later generations, but children born to an enslaved person would also be enslaved. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Parallel wording is a powerful trope, but after dying and being born, being here in my place and seeing the light of day, enough is enough. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He shot questions at me: Where were you born? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She enjoys their looks of disbelief when she tells them she is from New Jersey, born to Bengali parents. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

An education taught by life, challenge, difficulty and will, born of my own spirit, and the spirit of the world in which I live and that I treasure. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like that. They got deported back to Colombia. But I was born here and they didn’t want to take me away from my doctors. I’m a ‘ward of the state’ until I’m eighteen.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After I graduated, my mother and father encouraged me to come home to Birmingham and live with them until the baby was born. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had no idea that Moliere had been born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin and that Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His father had been murdered before he was born, and his mother had died of a drug overdose when he was a year old. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"The baby was born exactly nine months and ten days after the wedding." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Here the adventurer and king sat down; then carefully Penelope began: “Friend, let me ask you first of all: who are you, where do you come from, of what nation and parents were you born?” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another farmer “raises hogs and for fully nine months after the broadcast of poisons, he could raise no young pigs. The litters were born dead or they died after birth.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ira was seven when my first son was born, and she took a great interest in the newcomer. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom shows me photos of Khalid when he was little, before I was even born. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he was so violent that Flo had not managed to wean him properly by the time her next baby was born. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I miss Khalid so much that sometimes I have to pretend he’s still here, still in the first body he was born to, just so the pain won’t hurt as bad. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The segregated South where I was born twenty-odd years before Brown v. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It had gone on for hours when Tam Lin brought out a special wine that had been bottled the year El Patron was born. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That had really surprised Papa, because he had always believed that there were special people—people born special, just like he was born to cook. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The big-bang theory was born Yet scientists were aware that the big-bang theory suffered from a significant shortcoming. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In a few months the baby would be born, she would go back to her old life, and things would be as they had been. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No. But once, she visited me. You were about to be born. She said she liked the peace in my church.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“She was born the color she is now.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to tell her she’s not so special, she was just born in the right family. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He had been born right here in the Montlake district of Seattle, not far from the shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So there was no doubt in her mind, whether I agreed or not: Once you are born Chinese, you cannot help but feel and think Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She learned a bunch when she was in acting school way before I was born, which is how she met my father. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to get into the details of Athena’s children—how they were born straight from the mind of the goddess, just as Athena herself had sprung from the head of Zeus. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Widget born just before midnight, at the end of an old day. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Thus the modern idea of the machine was born by giving a new meaning to the Latin term machina. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"You can read? You said you were born behind bars." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“So that means her mom was sixteen when Anna was born.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“My mom always says I was born thirty-five years old and that I get more middle-aged every year.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Scared of the dark, Mar?” the dark-eyed Dauntless- born initiate teases. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I was born here,” Gitano said patiently and inflexibly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days before I was born, the village had held a meeting and agreed that, with grass and water everywhere, it would be a good time to move. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, he was born in Germany, but he is Karl—no Hun who bayonets babies. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

For Kino and Juana this was the morning of mornings of their lives, comparable only to the day when the baby had been born. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Laia’s a person, Helene. Someone’s daughter or sister. If you or I had been born to different parents, we might be in her shoes instead of our own.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Horace’s first child was born in December, he named him Erasmus. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no desire to share the fate of Galileo, with whom I feel a strong sense of identity, partly because of the coincidence of having been born exactly 300 years after his death! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sweetheart, you haven't messed up anything. You are perfect, so perfect, do you know that? I remember when you were born. The moment I saw you, that was my first thought: she’s perfect.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

That early autobiography didn’t begin: “I was born twice.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mahler was born into a Bohemian corner of the Austrian Empire, into a German-speaking Jewish community of about a thousand souls whose existence was entirely wiped from the map during the Holocaust. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I know my family is with joy that I was born. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“When any baby is being born upside down or a mother is too small for her baby, Sister Redempta is called in.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

For hockey and soccer players born in January, it’s a better shot at making the all-star team. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Someday her family would leave the United States, the country her mother and she and her brother had been born in, and move overseas to the mixed-up country her father had been born in. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He might have studied the saxophone had he not been born to immigrant parents who considered even pot holders an extravagance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When I was born, a lion was born. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashima thinks it’s strange that her child will be born in a place most people enter either to suffer or to die. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The principal reason that Bruno, who was born in 1548, came into conflict with the Church was because he was a follower of a movement known as Hermetism. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It will be the next generation, the ones like our children, who were born here, who won’t feel that pull.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As new flies had been born, selected, and bred, the gene frequencies had changed, resulting in populations with new genetic compositions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I like to think that Amélie remembers you, though, that some part of you imprinted itself on her when she was born. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Anyway, just like any potential new friendship, the relationships born from the Last Friend app can be pretty hit-or-miss. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After Daddy dies my grandmother brings the bed our mother was born in to Brooklyn. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And they made her feel like she’d been born with proper claws. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It is one thing to be born in the hood and know that you will never leave the hood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Though he only now realizes that it was also the night that Widget was born. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Now, where were you born, Panchito?” he asked in a firm tone, giving me a piercing look. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: Because of what we did, Rose wasn’t even born. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The strangeness of my situation struck me anew—I was a man born old at midnight into a new life. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But how ... I mean, I guess you weren’t born in a hospital. . . .” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Do you think people are born for a special purpose? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

A few months after Maureen was born, a squad car tried to pull us over because the brake lights on the Green Caboose weren’t working. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They say he was born with his eyes open. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Children born dark grew up to have their faces treated regularly with a mixture of egg white and lemon juice concentrate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure she ever liked me at all for being born. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Of Magdalene called Lena and First Corinthians, of his father trying to stop him dead before he was born. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s real life for the billions of animals unlucky enough to have been born into the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem like Mom had forgiven him—for what he did, for not being there when I was born. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Mithras was born from rock,” Annabeth said, hoping she was right. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

New larvae were born, matured into flies, and died in that carton. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

One of the foundational questions regarding any talent or ability is whether it is innate or learned—in other words, are we born musical, or can musicality and creativity be taught? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was their third move since Tony was born. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We were both born here, we went to the same schools, we were taught the same things. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The rest of the population, some 170,000 people, were enslaved workers, many of whom had been born in Africa and only recently sold into slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Before democracy, chattel slavery in America was born. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And then, to make matters worse, I heard my mother saying to Waverly: “True, cannot teach style. June not sophisticate like you. Must be born this way.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike most babies, Stuart could walk as soon as he was born. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Calpurnia said, “As sure as the sweet Jesus was born, baby. Get this in your head right now, you ain’t pregnant and you never were. That ain’t the way it is.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Though he was the chief wizard in the whole island of Iffish, Vetch made his home in Ismay, this small town where he had been born, living with his youngest brother and sister. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A true southerner, she never felt safe in the city, despite living here since I was born. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He may not have been born with guts, but he didn’t have to die without them. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s for . . . it’s for people who were born natural.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luigi Cherubini was one such composer, born in Florence but able to flourish in Paris by tiptoeing deftly between opposing camps as political power changed hands before, during and after the Revolution. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“No, dear. But my sister-in-law’s family was born in Germany,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“So she was seventy when you were born. I bet she was thinking, ‘Holy cow pie. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Rose was never born because of what we did. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

And so, thanks to Uri, in a cellar beneath a barbershop somewhere in Warsaw, Poland, in autumn of the year nineteen thirty-nine, I was born, you might say. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Meme saw them as if they had suddenly been born out of the light and her heart gave a turn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

These cattle were descendants of generations of desert cattle, born in dry sand and scrubby mesquite, where they hunted water the way desert antelope did. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whose new wife always seemed to suffer emergencies at the last minute that kept him from visiting more often, especially now that the baby was born. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Being born Malawian automatically made you a farmer. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“His wife says not. He went once before, when their first child was born, and had no trouble. No Warning.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It’s as if they’ve been born at the age of one year, or else are shriveled men. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She was raised in Herat, I was born here in Kabul.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The ones that were born a bit yellower to begin with lived to an old age in the drought; the birds couldn’t see them in the parched grass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My father had spent two years in the Army, but well before I was born. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Flowers, Hill, Rivers, Snow ... we give such names to base- born children to mark them for what they are, but they are always quick to shed them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A new subculture was born, composed of the millions of people who now devoted every free moment of their lives to searching for Halliday’s egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Are they sure?” said Tazviona, a large girl who had been born with a twisted foot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what do you do if you’re an athletic young Czech with the misfortune to have been born in the last part of the year? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Why would my dad—who hadn’t even stayed around long enough to see me born— talk to my mom about a summer camp? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even Craig, who’d so avidly protected me since the day I was born, had gotten swept up in the excitement of a potential run. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, you know Campbell Junior was born little,” I began, thinking fast. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Seeing that no answer was coming from Palmer, his mother gave up and walked off muttering, “Doesn’t have the good sense he was born with.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

"But you, my boy, have the right attitude! A born leader, that's what you are! A man to watch! You will go far!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pennsylvania ranks fourth in the nation in its percentage of residents who were born in the state and still live within its borders, often right on top of where they were born. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It is from this basic step that most American Black dances are born. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course we were born. We’re here, aren’t we? We just don’t happen to have any of those birth certificate things in our pockets.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very moral family he was born into. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jam’s mother had been born when there were monsters, and Jam’s grandmother had come from the islands, a woman entirely too gentle for that time. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mother had told the voices on the phone that she thought I’d been born sometime in the last week of September, they’d been silent. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My people who had been on this land even before Gran was born. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They ask me when I’m born so I tell ’em April 12 and Hazel he goes and buys one of them charts and read all about me. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then at last my child was born, a nicely formed boy, smaller than the others had been, but of course I was older now. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In five more weeks the child would be born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many relics of arrival in the Museum, because each person who had not been born in Village had his own story of coming there. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“No mouse, no matter how small or obscenely large-eared, is ever born with his eyes open. It simply isn’t done. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was born in He grew up poor in the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Like Hernan Cortes, who conquered Mexico, Pizarro was born into the lower fringes of the nobility and hoped by his exploits to earn titles, offices, and pensions from the Spanish crown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t born into it. I came to it. I chose it.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no. In what state were you born?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Pilgrims paid homage to Christ by visiting Bethlehem, where He was born, and Jerusalem, where He met His death. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“What you think this is? Sir Wallace, my van is your van! We will come back so you can meet your friend. Word is born.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She knew Mama’s family ’fore Mama was even born. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I was born in Puerto Rico, where my dad’s from, but I don’t remember even the slightest thing about it. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Ten years before the flames, I was born in the mountains, a scenic land of jewel-green fields, bamboo trees, and forests inhabited by gorillas, elephants, and chimpanzees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I thought as to how that mule had been there since I was born and that I had hurt it bad. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when you were first born, it was there. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People do rituals because they were born in the tribes. And in the tribes rituals are done every day. They are a way of life.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the day after you were born. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In Salinas in California, where I was born and grew and went to school gathering the impressions that formed me, there was only one Negro family. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was arrested and taken to Namwon. When I finally found out where they took her, I begged the Governor to release her, but he refused. That's how you ended up being born there.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe he wasn’t quite sure about me yet, maybe he hadn’t even wanted me born, but he was watching. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Nonsense, they chew them up and spit them out. Their leaders are made, not born. Then they're destroyed. You've always said that. Here you are, Brother." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Leto’s children were born, Artemis and Phoebus Apollo; and in after years Apollo’s glorious temple stood there, visited by men from all over the world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has been around the block, let me tell you, being born in South Africa and spending his youth here and there, partly even in Texas, from what I gather. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why she didn’t remarry after Grandpa Louis died, and that was when Pa was twelve and Uncle Darnell had been just born. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“How much money did you pay the doctor and the hospital when I was born?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, I’m honoring my relatives who died in the Holocaust and the cousins who were never born. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mom had gotten a text from Dad: he’d moved out a little while after Hadley was born, but I knew they still fought about money. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the boys were born in New York. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He thought about his eight-month-old daughter, who still had no name, and about the child who was going to be born in August. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I took this baby from my womb before it could be born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t she a few years older than he is?” “born the year before him. Children listened to him though. He’s white.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘In that case,’ she said, ‘how were you born?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has been many years since a child of the Sea God has been born. We have watched you with great interest.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He passed away before I was born, but I've always wondered if he was purposely stalling so he could keep his youngest daughter in the same country with him for as long as possible. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I should’ve been born, hissed Unborn Twin, not you, you cow. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We practiced the slump of the shoulders born of defeat, the shuffling gait of those who knew that there was no pleasant or agreeable end to their pilgrimage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I then had a visit from a young college instructor of English—a born Southerner of great breadth of understanding. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

To perform in the sport he was born for, he had to be very thin, but to survive his disease, he had to maintain habits that made thinness virtually impossible. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ymir slept, and while it slept, it gave birth: a male and a female giant were born from beneath Ymir’s left arm, a six-headed giant born from its legs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe we’re just born with some beliefs in our bones. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It’s Rabbi Gold who planted the phantom cousins in my mind—the ones who never had a chance to be born. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Each baby born, a world created, a possibility. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bebe had been in the country only two years by the time her baby was born, and in Cleveland for barely one. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Out but to relieve herself, mistress. She will be back soon, and then your babe will be born.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For if this child had been his instead of Nicolas’s, it would have been born healthy and intact, instead of exiting in bits and pieces in this sewer of a clinic. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To a child born in the Cairo gutter, it was an impossible dream. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

By the time he was born, in 1887, they weren’t warriors any longer. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their chief or Isle-Man was very old, and he alone of his people had ever before seen a man born in the Archipelago. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Or Baby Jesus, who was born in a barn and died on a cross, with nobody’s lips to kiss before he went. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

If talent wasn’t born in them, maybe it could be shoved in at so much per hour. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You lived here since you were born?” she asked. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

In my case, no one was sure when I’d been born. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I like to think that at some of those performances, they heard the songs of Ts’ai Yen, a poetess born in A.D. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black roses bloom in the moonlight, born dead and brittle. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The starting point in prison, however, was stress, much of it born of hostility. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’ The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Wilbur was what farmers call a spring pig, which simply means that he was born in springtime. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

One of every three babies born to a black mother in Durham died within the first year, and surviving to adulthood was no guarantee of a long life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“After Caroline was born, your father and me, we were so afraid of this.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The passengers looked out the windows at the place where the human species was born. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whilst they played wits against me—against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born—I was countermining them. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Watching from the cab, Milton came face-to-face with the essence of tragedy, which is something determined before you’re born, something you can’t escape or do anything about, no matter how hard you try. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Of course! I’ve seen all of the movies in the theater with my dad. I mean, except for the ones that came out before I was born.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“He did not return from the great hunt. It was before you were born,” her mother said gently. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the day I was born I have lived with hardships that most people couldn’t even bear. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thought the lights were the ghosts of those slaves coming for me because they were jealous that I’d been born free. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Truly I am in a sacred cosmic womb, a place where everything is born, and it is my sweet luck to behold its living core. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Oliver had earned that right by being born between two sets of sisters, but he had the honor of being the only boy, which held him apart. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If the boy is born, Prince Dain will never be king. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Antain waited for their child to be born before he began his journey. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I was born right here in California. My old man had a chicken ranch, ‘bout ten acres. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third of five children, she was born to a mother who was a cook and to a laborer father whom, though the parents had married, she didn’t meet until she was ten. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The only notable thing about the birth was that the infant was born with a caul which was supposed to indicate that the child was set apart to do great things in the world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a feeling of dread—born of fatigue and aversion to military discipline—that I tried to disguise. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.’ Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My mother was fifty when I was born.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christianity was born there and in cities near the Mediterranean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe more than wanting to cook, he was born wanting to see the future. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had four sons born a year apart. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I wondered if all the crying I did hurt you. I wonder if that's why you are born too soon." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Back in Ville Rose you cannot even throw out the bloody clumps that shoot out of your body after your child is born. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The beauty of the Lady of the Keep confused his mind, and in this rich, seemly, orderly, strange Court, he felt himself to be a goatherd born and bred. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter-in-law’s pregnancy had caused the usual anxiety, of course, but Chapter Eleven had been born healthy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mariner, Viking, Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity, just to name a few, had all been born in this one room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been a terrible day for Papa when we were born. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It is born when Mr. Neck tracks me through the cafeteria, demanding my “Twenty Ways the Iroquois Survived in the Forest” homework. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton had been born on the West Indian island of Nevis, the illegitimate son of a down-on-her-luck beauty of French extraction and a hard-drinking Scottish merchant with a flair for bankruptcy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But once a woman decides she will have her baby, a pressing question arises: what are parents supposed to do once a child is born? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I went past the rosebushes to Baba’s mansion, Hassan to the mud shack where he had been born, where he’d lived his entire life. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Liszt’s fifth innovation was a product of the particular political geography into which he was born. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

According to Nan, she was a born loner but always blessed with a plus-one, first my daddy and now me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

C.P. left my mother to look for a job, stayed away for a year, and came back just long enough for my sister Delphine to be born. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

That was what people called children who were born after liberation from British colonial powers. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

No kittens were growing inside, much less about to be born. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But when water came out of those showers, not gas, it was like I was born again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Lewis, who was born in 1861, was an allotted member of the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Aphrodite was the most ancient Olympian, born of the sea and the blood of Ouranos. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To me that Y looked like the newly born horse standing up on his thin legs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“An old boyfriend. Maybe he split when your mom got pregnant. Or maybe he got killed in an accident before you were born.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His father had been born a slave in Virginia and had risen to the position of overseer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Thus was born the idea of the creches. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t have birth certificates in them days. You were just born, and people accepted it.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Regina Wender Fischer, Bobby’s mother, was born in Switzerland and moved with her family to the United States when she was just two years old. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So we moved again, this time to a village called Wernyol, where my father had been born. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they were rumbling along the road in a beat-up Ford pickup that had been new about the time Hazel was born. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Inside the front cover her mother’s name was written, and it was dated years before Ash had been born. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean . . . some of the Peacekeepers are born in Two?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“But—” “Percy, the spiders getting away. Do you really want me to explain the exact details of how I was born?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s them, but much younger, before I was born. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Twenty days after they lost Annie, on May 13, a new child, a son, Horace, was born. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you are, darling. You were born in Georgia and you’ve always lived below the Mason-Dixon Line.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually...I was born to do so many things. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Colin's father believed that this kind of prodigy—born and then made smarter by the right environment and education—could become a considerable genius, remembered forever. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It was October 7, 2002, and like most days in Stokum, the rank little pinprick of a town where I was born and raised, the seventh of October unraveled in a completely unmemorable way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Fresher than the day they were born — and fat as priests. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The strange, passionate marriage of Russian and French modernism that was born at those Trocadero concerts was to turn into something big, noisy and rebellious. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Number Six was born in Providence, where the family had moved in 1912. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

His words had imbued millions of South Africans and people around the world with the hope that a new South Africa was about to be born. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a nuisance,” she said. “lt is the sea,” he said solemnly, “in which I was born.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just to be nice, I pick the number 17, for the day Joon was born. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was said even the babies were born smiling. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In bed that night, I couldn’t stop thinking about the key, and how every 2.777 seconds another lock was born in New York. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been born and raised in Honolulu but had spent four years of his childhood flying kites and catching crickets in Indonesia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother, Gloria Grace, the woman who Grace shared her name with, had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer a month before Grace had been born, and died right after Grace’s first birthday. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But I would never have been born in the first place if not for the great and selfless kindness Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was born with good hand- eye coordination and quickness. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

My father was a born storyteller, largely because his own life had been like one fantastic tale. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“My dad’s resented me since the day I was born, Percy,” she said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But he’d found it interesting, looking at those things, at the lists of all the babies born and how much they weighed and how long they were. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

For he saw his eldest for what he was: a man big in body but afraid of his own town wife and more afraid of not appearing nobly born than of anything. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And when he told her that airplanes had been in existence before he was born, and long before the Revolution, the fact struck her as totally uninteresting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The ancient pharaohs assigned surveyors to assess the damage and reset the boundary markers, and thus geometry was born. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I read that van Gogh was Dutch and that he was born in 1853. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

How could there be another Rochester Charles, born the exact same day as him? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This was the treatment that all of his children received before they were born. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved her dearly, but she was Canadian, born in the late nineteenth century, and thus deeply imbued with British class-consciousness. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Beef cattle still get born on thousands of independently owned ranches like theirs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His mother had been born in that small Canadian town. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I was born crookbacked, crippled, and fell, I will be cured at Saint Winifred’s well. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The middle star in the sword is not actually a star but a great cloud of gas called the Orion Nebula, in which stars are being born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was born on the nineteenth of August and Billy Campbell told me the father and mother have to be married nine months before there’s a sign of a child. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

You must have just been born, for I as yet had had no news of your birth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s troubles began the night she was born. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or as she liked to see herself, she was born strong-willed, while a lot of the world was wishy-washy. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It proved such a financial boon that when the family’s third son was born that year, Elias in gratitude wanted to name him Columbus. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Every so often a hermaphrodite was born, a seeming girl who, in growing up, proved otherwise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If she had lived, John thought, then he would never have been born; his father would never have come North and met his mother. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We had Oscar since before I was born. He was like a brother to me. I know that sounds stupid.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her Grandmother Clara searched her back and found the tiny star-shaped mark that distinguishes those born to true happiness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bled and thought about the people to be killed; I bled and thought about the people to be born. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents like to claim that after he was born, I frequently locked myself in the bathroom and very loudly plotted schemes to run away from home, because no one paid attention to me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I just knew she was the person for me, or that I was born to be hers. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But out of the void, the universe was born, as was the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He says, “Well. I guess you could say, a weak moment born of guilt. Do you know what that means?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Bernard Zuckerman, who was almost as studious as Bobby in analyzing games, especially the strategy of opening moves, was born just days apart from Bobby and ultimately would become an international master. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Had he been born twenty years earlier, Jesse would have probably suffered the traditional geeks’ fate in school, then slunk home to read comics and watch some bad TV. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back before Axel was born, Byrd green-scaped the whole property from the turn up the driveway to the big red barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t sound like the trial would happen until after my baby was born. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

With a violence born of total helplessness, he pulled her dress up, lowered his trousers and underwear. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had to be more than thirty years between them, if his father really had been a doctor when David was born. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was something that had been born into her and her only—the something different from anyone else in the two families. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She never goes out in the sun. She was just born tan.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

For soil is in part a creation of life, born of a marvelous interaction of life and nonlife long eons ago. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Over the next months his new philosophy was born. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“My parents are American. They were born in Brooklyn.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stars like the Sun are born in batches, in great compressed cloud complexes such as the Orion Nebula. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

James A. Johnson, born in rural Suffolk, Virginia, had moved with his family to Hampton as an adolescent. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Barnsley found that there were nearly five and a half times as many Ontario Junior Hockey League players born in January as were born in November. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

‘Now, you have to be born somewhere. North Carolina—Tennessee—Alabama—some place.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’ve known you ever since you were born, Naima. Some of your ideas are crazy, but you always think of something. And a few of them are really good.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

We have to depend on people not even born yet. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Obviously, I was not the only child born to black and white parents during apartheid. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A big ball of hatred had been born here, she realized, and it would have to be dealt with sooner or later. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The “buttonhole” is what the doctors put inside Auggie when he was born to allow him to breathe. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mother Lois was a born teacher, always in the instructor’s mode. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It had given him a slight advantage the first year or two, a little more maturity than many of his groupmates who had been born in the later months of that year. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Men are born and remain free and equal in rights,” it announced to the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Florence’s mother had known this story, so it seemed, from the day that she was born. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Right after you were born, us telling her how grateful we were, but it was returned.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Before the madwoman was born, her mother had sacrificed a baby to the Witch. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Only occasionally did they go out after Ronny was born, and even more rarely did they entertain. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

More players were born in January than in any other month, and by an overwhelming margin. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Whether he cared at all that I was going to be born. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I was born to lead men in the profession of mining coal. Maybe you were too.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My father and mother did. I was born afterward. I think it’s white. Anyway, I know one thing. We don’t want to go back. We don’t want to get caught.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped that his newly born daughter would be a little like Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Governor’s words pounded in Pong’s temples: Those who are born in darkness always return. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Seventeen out of the twenty-five players on the team were born in January, February, March, or April. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Her father had been slain before she was born, and her splendid brother Rhaegar as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her mother, Jeer, had been born in Africa and loved to tell her daughter and her friends stories of her childhood in a small village by a river and all the animals who lived nearby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There were two kinds of Puerto Ricans in school: the newly arrived, like myself, and the ones born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Barrel boys don’t have parents. We’re born in the harbor and crawl out of the canals.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was a surprise baby, born two decades after his brothers, when the Janssens were already stooped and gray. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wedding was exciting, but the most exciting day for me was when my daughter, Agot, was born. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been something born straight from her worst nightmares, horrid. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They were gone, and the others, the men who had not been born of Fenoglio’s words, were hurrying back to tell Capricorn what had happened. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Zeno was born around 490 BC, at the beginning of the Persian wars—a great conflict between East and West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t born cool like this,” Cool Papa said in a way that could only be described as cool. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

We splashed around in that cold, clear water like river nymphs, born to swim and bathe till the end of days. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Scott Wasden was born on January 4, within three days of the absolute perfect birthday for an elite hockey player. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m only half British. When we visit England, everyone calls us Yanks. But Americans hear my mom’s accent and assume I was born in England. Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong in either place.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Being born in the elite in the U.S. gives you a constellation of privileges that very few people in the world have ever experienced,” Levine said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Klaus, when Sunny was born, did not like her at all, but by the time she was six weeks old the two of them were thick as thieves. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Babies born without hair, who were considered underdeveloped, were killed immediately. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But other physicists propose that two alternative histories, two equally valid realities, could exist side by side—the one you know and the one in which you were never born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only I HAD been born a boy, she thought. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Mina and I were both born in America,” Mr. Das announced with an air of sudden confidence. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the meantime he had gotten married, and right after his first child, Adrian, was born, he decided to go to college fulltime to get a degree. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The resolution to the paradox—that a bad thing, dying, implies a good thing, having lived—is explained with parallel constructions: never going to die... never going to be born. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

His mother was running a hotel with his sister in the village where he’d been born. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Nor was she old enough to appreciate the injustice, to see that it is the creators of the harami who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The goat’s belly already held a baby that would soon be born. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Cleveland’s newspapers made a strong point of declaring that only eight of those arrested had been born in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A pregnant woman imagined her baby born blue, and hoped it were the blue of death sooner than the blue of gods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All these will disappear when the universe comes to an end and a new one is born. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe I would earn the title after I determined if I’d been born allergic to cleaning or if the aversion had been learned. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not...” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And after several exchanges Rosa’s told me that she has been in a wheelchair her whole life, that she can walk but only with arm crutches, and that she was born with cerebral palsy. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Are we born knowing right from wrong, or do we have to learn it? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The earth,” wrote the pioneering fire ecologist Edward V Komarek, "born in fire, baptized by lightning, since before life’s beginning has been and is, a fire planet.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some three years before, he had been born—the strongest of a litter of five—in a burrow outside a cottage garden near Cole Henley. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the nurses at the hospital took turns coming to see him when he was born—they had never seen a Japanese baby before. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Though it’s not exactly a reward when you’re born with freedom and a thief sneaks into your home at night and steals it from you. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

After all, two of the four men in their group were white Americans born in New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“We were born into war,” I continued, describing my childhood. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

No one heeded him, and there was running to and fro, but he dared to stop no one to ask what sort of a child had been born or even if any had been born. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Dad and Mother moved to another New York apartment on Riverside Drive, where Mary and Ernestine were born. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When each baby was born, the parents rejoiced, the heavens rejoiced, even the fairies rejoiced. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

What I must present is a made thing, not something born. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But only nine months after Tommy was born, Luke arrived premature. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I finished high school before you were born,” my mother retorted. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Biggest pile seen since I was born, Oh! Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy kept watching the clock while she ate, the hands moving closer and closer to 10:33, which was when she was born. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Once when I had a little time from the railroad, Elzenia, my brother, Johnny, and me went up north along the Oklahoma border before the first of our children was born. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Campbell Junior was born, he did go see the baby and made a big to-do over it being a boy, which really pleased Aunt Loma. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mama said they went back and forth about my name, even in the delivery room before I was born. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Oh, and there was also a Warren Wright born in 1964; was it possible Mrs. Richardson had her names mixed up? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The factory is in New Jersey. My dad was born right after that. That’s why he’s named Apollo.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pregnant women walked a mile out of their way just to avoid Cleofes and thus ensure that their offspring would not be born missing a nose or a finger or some other priceless appendage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of those stupid books you read all night. No, wait. You were just born knowing it all. Sorry. I forgot.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Some of them were alive when Benjamin Franklin was born. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the face of a newly born child, red and full of wrinkles, ready to cry. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some weren’t, just as not every business titan in the United States was born in the mid-1830s. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"But where were you born?" she asks my sister. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was born in the poorest quarters of the city, because of the harsh winter, the malnutrition, and the dirty water, and it joined forces with the unemployment and spread in every direction. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was not a bad thing to do in China back then, to kill a baby before it is born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister’s middle name was Akiko, which means “autumn”—when she was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s father, Vincenzio, who had been born in Florence in 1520, was an accomplished professional musician who was keenly interested in mathematics and musical theory. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bateson knew that he needed a name for the discipline that was being born around him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Holly Short was a city elf born and bred. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Knows the law inside and out, and he’s a Southerner born and bred.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

If you journeyed into the past and prevented your parents from meeting, then you would never have been born—which is something of a contradiction, since you clearly exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I concluded that many friendships are born and maintained for purely geographical reasons. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was born in Belize City, Belize, where she also grew up. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her mother had been born in Vietnam from a father who was a black American soldier. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Lem Harvey wasn’t the only man “born for a fight.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eden wasn't born yet— he was still inside Mom's growing belly. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But Haupt learned that the baby had died a few days after being born. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Charles missed them terribly when, a few months after Etty was born, he went to Shrewsbury to see his father and sisters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anyone learned the truth about her—where she'd been born, who her real mother was—her family would never recover. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Yeah, say Sofia, with a real puzzle look on her face, I wonder why she was ever born. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Miss Whitlaw had been born and raised in that house. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been conceived and born during the difficult crossing of the mountains, before the founding of Macondo, and his parents gave thanks to heaven when they saw he had no animal features. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They would not tell us children because we had been born among ghosts, were taught by ghosts, and were ourselves ghost-like. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Billions of people have been born and have died in its lifetime. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Squelch's funny in the head 'cause he was born too early, so nobody ever thumps him one. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the day she was born, she was one year old. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You two, you grew up with families. You’ve probably lived in this house since you were born, right? Right?” he said again when Maya didn’t respond, and she reluctantly nodded. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But... sometimes it feels like we’re the same person born into two different worlds.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The various communist regimes that had held power since the night Laila was born were all defeated. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was always held to be the real founder of Rome because Romulus and Remus, the actual founders, were born in the city his son built, in Alba Longa. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, Grandfather,” he said, “how did you get born and how did your daughter get born?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was born in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1922; his father was an Egyptian Jew, and his mother a Dutch Protestant. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hit’s the fact thet a boy like Jesus was born to a mama who could leave Him be. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And I didn't sound wooden the way some people who weren't born actresses do, which I suspected I was—along with being born to write. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They know she is sixteen years old, born in Seoul. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Brown hair like you. She was born six weeks early but the doctor says she’ll be fine.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have no name. I didn’t know I was born until I was torn away from his heart.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the world I was born into didn’t want that. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was in her mid-thirties and married to a psychotherapist when Isaac and Jonah were born. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Our host had been born in the main village and never left. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the daughter's baby girl was born, his wife put her foot down. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa on 15 February 1564—the same year that William Shakespeare was born and in the same month that Michelangelo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They’d sneer at her, tell her she was ugly, and say, “Dale mean—she born mean and she gonna stay mean.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Anatole explained it this way: Like a princess in a story, Congo was born too rich for her own good, and attracted attention far and wide from men who desire to rob her blind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had to introduce me to them, because they had all died before I was born. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Stella remembers every moment since she was born: every scent, every sunset, every slight, every victory. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And was being a coward something you were born with, like ears that stuck out? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And I added that they were worthless daughters of baboons and they should never have been born. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had died so that the Henry he was now could be born. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’d like to tell you about Jesus Christ,” they announced, and he thought to himself, “I was born in Jerusalem, right down the road from Bethlehem, and they think they’re just now telling me?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The two composers, both born in 1813, had pursued parallel but quite separate careers in opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Hazel was the eighth, and his mother became confused about his sex when he was born. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not try to touch any warning spots, and, as if we are all born rebels, because he is not touching them, I want him to. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I knew because my father had been born when she was sixteen. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tullahoma was where Momma and Wynn had grown up, where my daddy had gone to high school, and where I was born. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But long before Pacheco’s indestructible sow rose to prominence in the townsfolk’s fertile imaginations, another phantom was born to roam through the Miracle Valley wreaking all manner of curious havoc. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My ma died when I was born, and being my old man was a government packer in the mountains, and no cows around most of the time, why he just gave me mostly mare’s milk.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would tell them that the Border Patrol officer had made a mistake thinking I was here illegally, that once I proved to him I was born in Colton, California, he let me back in. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

About 80 percent of the population had been born elsewhere; about half had rolled into town during the previous five years. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The only trouble was, this heifer Spot, as we called her, had been snaky wild from the day she was born. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the undisputed champ of the purgatives was born in the enterprising mind of a jockey’s masseur named Frank “Frenchy” Hawley. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We live here now, she was born here.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Of the 30,000 people who live in the Links’ census tract, 75 percent were born outside Georgia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of us were born steeped in sin, the sin of our fathers that Baptism and Confirmation began to wash away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her luck she had been born into the only nonkissing culture, just when it started feeling like a valuable activity. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

According to most accounts, he was born in the sixth century BC on Samos, a Greek island off the coast of Turkey famed lor a temple to Hera and for really good wine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I am too old to work. I come back where I was born.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not him personally—everyone like him, kids who were born after their parents had already had two babies. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You think I don’t know what you are? I wasn’t born yesterday! Open your eyes—let me see your eyes!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It held a sense of agelessness, like it was a piece of something born in another time. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then I would thank Allah because I had been born into the house on the right, rather than the one on the left. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a plain horse who was born strong and sturdy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Louisa was a born inciter, and danced circles around her brother. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

If the birds of the North are born with a migratory instinct fused into the albumen of eggs, then the military families of America develop the same instinct out of necessity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the day we were born, twins like Jacob and Esau, the younger had ruled the older. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She broke up with Curt a few weeks after that, and she signed on to WordPress, and her blog was born. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even General Smuts realized the dangers of this harsh ideology, decrying apartheid as “a crazy concept, born of prejudice and fear.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pups had been first born, Pap got vexed with me once I started naming ’em. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

His friend couldn't help where he was born. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. That’s why he lets me help him. Do you know I once saw a baby be born? I mean not a cow or a horse, but a real baby!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help how I looked or what had happened to me since I was born, but I sure as hell could control how I dealt with people teasing me about it. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Some people were born to inhabit such scenes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“No. We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete. You should be glad not to be a Latin.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

What made Kate so effective was the fact that she had either learned it or had been born with the knowledge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One must die and be buried under the floor of the hut where it was born.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the baby was exhumed but before she had an opportunity to formally examine the body, Enstice told an investigator that she believed that the baby had been born alive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her face became the face that he gave her in his dreams, the face that had been hers in a photograph he had seen once, long ago, a photograph taken before he was born. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And he needed the education that Florence desired far more than he, and that she might have got if he had not been born. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was signed “Afua,” the African name our mother had tried to give Fern when she was born, but Pa wouldn’t let her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Yes, that's why I'm kept at court. To watch over this process. They use my blood to ensure that enough Belles are born." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

You're the one that was born near night, my father says. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Yeah, he could definitely see her being born with lava in her veins. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was short like me, and wore faded dresses that she’d bought way before I was born. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Initially, it simply seemed like an interesting story—a young swimmer from America who longed to compete in the summer games, but her nationality was in question because she had been born on a ship. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

To people born into a landscape of rock and fog, the conflagration of green must have been a dazzlement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The child of Inner Party parents is in theory not born into the Inner Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I am writing these words in 1984, but this grandfather of mine was born, believe it or not, in 1820, shortly after Wellington had defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been born into a world of plenty, then had to watch it all slowly vanish. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was like he was born to be the man. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

What did you get for that, for knowing the day you were born into the white man’s world? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was the first male born into the family in two generations. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“If that’s where the dragons were born, then there must still be magic there.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

And, indeed, compared to other animals, humans are born prematurely, when many of their vital systems are still under-developed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a baseball field was the only place where he felt he was exactly where he was born to be. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the family moved up north, Eugene had found that some of the other children at his school had roots in New York or Philadelphia or had been born right there in Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If you were born on Friday, you could be called Friday. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, her. Hemiplegia. Half her brain got wrecked some way before she was born so the other half had to take over, and it makes her do certain things backwards.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had forgotten that Jaime had been born on the same day and did not have such fits. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love hearing about the blue-skinned Hindu god who was born behind bars, like me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“You might have been born the biggest fish in the sea, but the skill and perseverance of those lower born can take you down and destroy you.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Now a girl had been born into his house as well. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her youngest, Christopher, had been born shortly after the uncertain time at Robert Taylor and had been with her only off and on because of a custody fight between her and Christopher’s father. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was born there in 1898, the first of five children. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What do you mean, picked up? He was a nice young man, and it just so happens that he had a baby daughter born the same time as my little Cuquita." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Sea otter cannot swim when they are first born, and have to hold on to their mother. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old systems of exploitation and oppression are passing away, and out of the womb of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was born on August 18, 1921, and her birthday just happened to be Soviet Air Fleet Day or Aviation Day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On the plains of the American west, where steer 534 was born, bison and the prairie grasses lived together in partnership for thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"People will assume you're bad if they find out you were born here, so don't be talking about it." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He had been born and raised in Macondo and he was an apprentice mechanic in the banana company garage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Why would I hate you for that? It’s not your fault. You didn’t ask to be born.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I suppose my lifelong paranoia was born in those cold, molasses-slow minutes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new baby that is still waiting inside Uhmma’s stomach will be born in the Year of the Dragon. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In other words, the very factors that drove millions of American women to have an abortion also seemed to predict that their children, had they been born, would have led unhappy and possibly criminal lives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Michael was just four days away from turning ten when I was born, Gary was eight, Paula seven, and Catherine four. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He and his brother were probably born here; Flushing has always been home for them. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Being born mortal is like being born already dead. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He knew that she had been born with brittle bones, and that she got fractures easily, and that two of her six children and two of her grandchildren also had the condition. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was born on August 4, on the one-year anniversary of their wedding. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Some were published way before I was even born. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If I had been born in a much earlier age, no matter how great my dedication, I would not have understood what the stars and planets are. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered what I would be doing if I had been born into a red family instead of a black one. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were all born in a warren that was dug before our mothers were born,” said Blackberry. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hung out together a couple of times before any of the babies were born. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The disreputable circumstances surrounding Lee's pregnancy were enough to influence the pathologist who conducted the autopsy to conclude that the stillborn baby was born alive and was then suffocated by Lee. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Babies are born with this thing on their heads, a class of a hood, rare and magical. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Because Mai, as her mother reminded people, was born in the year of the dragon; and that meant nobility and power and strength. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After all, a human being cannot be trained for these situations, he must be born for them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It is my belief that Cathy Ames was born with the tendencies, or lack of them, which drove and forced her all of her life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was an only son, and he was born six months after his father was mustered into a Connecticut regiment in 1862. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had wept in his mother's womb and had been born with his eyes open. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Middle children are in an unfortunate position. They get neither the privileges reserved for the first born nor the special attention specific to the baby of the family. Do you follow me?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All countries and islands, afraid for the same reason, refused to receive her and give her a place where her child could be born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said Mr. Price used to always say, “I was born here, and I’m gonna be buried here.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Charles reasoned that if too many individuals of a species are born in the same place and try to live off a limited supply of food, there is a fight for survival. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if a glacier was being born somewhere in the heart of the place, and its frozen tongues were squeezing out wherever there was an opening. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

This, of course, was impossible, for he had met my mother in Iowa, not in California, If he’d stayed in California, he wouldn’t have met her and Lynn wouldn’t have been born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, Luke, you know the story. It was right before you were born, wasn't it? I’d always been special, able to see through the . . . what- ever-they-call-it.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because the Corcorans were Irish, maybe it was that Mr. Corcoran was born in Boston, but the whole family seemed to feel, somehow, that it had a mysterious affinity with the Kennedys. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Must have been born on one,” he mused. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for somebody to be with joy that I was born. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the earliest age of the gods, existence was born from non-existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He felt like he’d been born into the wrong family, and he didn’t know what he was meant to do with his life.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I made this before Campbell Junior was born.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When Dad was twenty-seven, Luke was born, at home, delivered by a midwife. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Some days I felt as if I had been born into their family; other times I felt like a guest who had stayed too long. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Did you know that when you were born you had a blue spot right above your little butt? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The typical baby girl born in a black neighborhood in 1970 was given a name that was twice as common among blacks as whites. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Some said it was as old as the world, built when our Blessed Savior was first born. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the first month of Sundays was the January after Jesus was born. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Said he: “Two men are here—two strangers, Menelaos, but nobly born Akhaians, they appear. What do you say, shall we unhitch their team, or send them on to someone free to receive them?” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In Cuba it’s good to be born in November,” Mami replies. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

My mother says I was born a runner; that I entered this world wanting to get up and go. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Is there a perfect time for a New York Jewish lawyer to be born? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Did being born in Germany make Karl any less my friend? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was said that each of the six gods had been born from the universe’s own teardrop, three drops each from two eyes to create six immortal beings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She told me they hadn’t fallen off; I was just born like that. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This pretty little girl who was born by day wants to get taken to the candy store. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Good evening!” he says with that perfectly modulated voice that announcers seem to be born with. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then, casually, “Where have you spent the most time? Where you were born, I imagine?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Your father was born in Erudite,” she says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the girls were born and Mama Lessie passed age thirty, she was able to fulfill her long-held dream: to go back to school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Will people at such a time be born in the grave and die in the womb? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day the baby was born, I spied, in the dead of night, midwives, under a cloak of great secrecy, digging small holes near the house. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said I was born to be a Keeper. He said that Keepers don’t have families, only one another, but that it’s, uh, better because families only run off and abandon you.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He outlived most of the boys born that year. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a long, difficult labor for a fifth baby, and I was born at 12:35 p.m. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“What you should have done is played the lotto after the girls were born.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

To have been born before 1911 is to have been demographically unlucky. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“What makes being a born magician so special? It’s like...Dylan and I are connected somehow.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even more remarkably, nearly 30 percent of the black girls are given a name that is unique among the names of every baby, white and black, born that year in California. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She adored her son—the child born late in life when she wasn’t sure she could still have children, the charmer, the one whose manipulations she always gave in to. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But I will rebuild on this space. This was my father’s space before I was born, and my mother’s after he died. Now that she is dead, it’s mine.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Bessie settled in San Antonio, where the first of their two sons was born. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Since Uther naturally could not many her until she was out of mourning for the earl, the boy had been born too soon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kissed my mother, forty-four years old, a born survivor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was born all broken and twisted, and he was born mad. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

God though he was she hated him, especially when the time came for her child to be born and he showed her no sign, gave her no aid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because they were born in New York, Peralta’s children are United States citizens, and their health care is generally covered by Medicaid. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Geography didn’t catch up to Eratosthenes until true oceangoing ships proved his calculations directly, almost two thousand years after he was born. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

My nanni made my bedspread as a gift for my mom when I was born. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Starting before she was born, her parents had bounced from state to state because, in their words, “that’s where our paychecks pulled us.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

You might even be able to track down your mother and kill her before she meets your father, preventing you from being born and causing a terrible paradox. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Why all this fuss about where someone was born? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“My great-grandmother’s ring. My parents have kept this for me since I was born.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had assumed it was a thing born of the circus itself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They say I was born with a caul, a skin netting covering my face like a glove. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

A tip of the hat to anyone who can come up with something better. to the manner born. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me, you fool! I know what it’s like outside the wall. I was born there.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like Yuko and Kathy, Mary was an American, born into a Christian household, who had converted to Islam as an adult. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s his given name. Nobody’s born with a name like Jinx.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And he who will release you is not born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guns had been outlawed for everyone but Government officials long before he was born. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It happened around the time my younger brother Hunter was born. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were never born, because their parents and grandparents were murdered by the Nazis. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Cora read the accounts of slaves who had been born in chains and learned their letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Picked on all the time, even though his dad sliced off the extra skin on his hands when he was born. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was born a week after New Year’s, on January 8, 1960. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And since I had been born in a Christian nation, I accepted this Deity as the only one. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“You can tell she wasn’t born in this country,” she said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

These mice had been born in the laboratory and for all their lives they had been kept free of all germs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have no more choice in that than in whether or not to be born.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the vast flock, a variant was born with a grotesque beak capable of cracking seeds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I asked how she and Carlton were related to the black Lackses, they looked at each other from across the coffee table like I’d asked if they were born on Mars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A giant born to oppose the twins, Apollo and Artemis, but, much like Artemis, Orion rejected his destiny. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My mother says I was born on an evil day and prays for me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is how they got a high school education; had they been born two or three or four years earlier, they might never have gotten a full education. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My parents probably argued before Héctor was born. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Can you believe Bunker Tower had been standing for nine years by the time I was born?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then, four and a half months after baby Joseph was born, Henrietta went to the bathroom and found blood spotting her underwear when it wasn’t her time of the month. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“After Tommy was born, it was like his world changed in one night.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s a completely irrational thought, but it’s hard knowing that my life could be much better had I only been born looking a bit more like my momma. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You committed a great crime, but you at least deserved to be born as a worm or a lizard. I mean, really, it’s a bit drastic to be born as a softskin, don’t you think?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was a leader of the legion now, doing what he was born to do—fighting the enemies of Rome, upholding its legacy, protecting the lives of his friends and comrades. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“No, you are made new by love. A maid no more, but born a woman,” said a wiser, more generous voice. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And second, once born, that gross-beaked finch must be able to transmit the same trait to its offspring, thereby fixing the variation for generations to come. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if Cecile loved us when we were born. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I had never met them before the moment I was born.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Shortly before you were born, I was pulled over by the PG County police, the same police that all the D.C. poets had warned me of. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He’s a born schoolmaster with all his questions. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ban on phone calls was, then, purely punitive, just as the pepper-spraying of the child-man had been born of a combination of opportunity, cruelty, ambivalence, and sport. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

During one, my mother got pregnant with their second son, who died a few days after he was born. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had known about the bad heart even before Bob and Jane were born. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother is the crossing guard at Latimer Middle School and has been the crossing guard there since before he was born. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were disfigured by wounds or simply because they had been born that way. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the worlds split before Mom or that other woman were even born,” Emma interrupted. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His mother had told him he had been born in France and that his father had died before his own birth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I was born, he was a missionary in India and that is how I got my first name. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"You know I didn't believe it at first. He was born in 1905. I was in school in Paris, then. Think of that." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

One night, a short time before their first child was born, Fernanda realized that her husband had returned in secret to the bed of Petra Cotes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was too afraid of how girls who'd been born in America would judge me if I confessed that I wasn't supposed to be living in the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She couldn't have been born in a prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In the beginning my sisters bustled indoors, playing the role of mother’s helper with more enthusiasm than they’d ever shown for housework in all their born days. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, he’s disappointed, first off that I wasn’t born a boy, and second that I won’t play ball like one. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another famous Frenchman was Jules Verne, who was born about a hundred and fifty years ago. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deer, whose name was The Deer, was born about a year or so ago and grew up freely in the woods. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She knew that a woman named Helena was there, watching the spirit leave her infant, who had been born too soon. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bulky computer—one that looked like it was born in the late 1990s—randomly blinked on a rack. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Being born with a sickly resemblance to Henry Fonda was the first of a long series of practical jokes of which destiny was to make Major Major the unhappy victim throughout his joyless life. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

‘Were taking the heifer calf. The one you saw getting born, you know.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But when he straightened, I saw in his slumping shoulders that the life I had known since I’d been born was over. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"No kidding. I was born and brought up in this town myself." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as their delightful baby daughter was born, they knew it was going to be the adventure of a lifetime. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Being born poor in the U.S. gives you disadvantages unlike anything in Western Europe and Japan and Canada.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, Mother,” he asked, “how did you get born and how did I get born?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“We’re your parents, Link. We love you. The instant you were born, we were on your side, no matter what.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to think of death; how everybody was born but to die. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of us were born in this country; we had no other models. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re alike, he and I. It was just the same for me when I was young. I wasn’t born invisible; it happened a little at a time.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z