Sentence examples for born into a fortune from inspiring English sources

Humans intuit that whether one is born into a fortune or one earns it in the market there is only so much credit one can take for great wealth.

None of those 3.5 billion men, women, boys or girls will be born into a fortune such as that enjoyed by the Waltons of Walmart fame, in which just six people own $149bn.

We weren't born into a fortune.

Ms. Yazbek, who has the fair complexion of many coastal Syrians, was born into a prominent family whose fortunes had started to recede after her grandfather voluntarily distributed his considerable land to the peasants who worked on it.

In addition to his good fortune at being born into a language exploding with expressive potential, Shakespeare also was deeply fortunate in his early education.

"Yes, I've had the great good fortune to be born into a life of wealth and privilege, with a name to match," she writes.

We had the good fortune to be born into a world that gave credit to qualities other than ostentatious wealth: our children and the other virtues that warmed our spirits and brightened our lives.

Rae, singer and songwriter, had the good fortune to be born into a world of music and the momentous energy he emits to the crowd is intoxicating.

I am busy wildly contemplating global child poverty, or marveling at our daughter's fortune to have been born into a family that desperately loves her and wants to provide her with everything.

Forrest, born into a large, poor family was a self-made man amassing a fortune through cotton planting, land speculation and slave trading.

St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, born into a wealthy Christian family, did just that until his fortune was all gone.