Chuck Palahniuk
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
Ecclesiastes
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted... a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together... Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Petrarch
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one
The Bhagavad Gita
But if he was born again and again, and again and again he was to die, even then, victorious man, do not grieve.