Noun
accident of birth (plural accidents of birth)
(idiomatic) A fact, situation, or personal characteristic, which may be desirable or undesirable, resulting from the circumstances into which a person was born, and which is therefore entirely beyond their control.
I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. Maya Angelou
Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth. Wilford Brimley
I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional. Fareed Zakaria
Fascinated in the sense that it's advanced human rights; it's advanced in the sense that everything in your license, everything in your birth certificate can now be determined by the person himself. Nothing to be determined by the accident of birth. That is advanced citizenship, and I am all for it. Francis Escudero
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. Richard Dawkins