Birth Quotes - page 3

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul. (George Harrison)
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more. View quote
William Cowper
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Angel that presided oer my birth Said Little creature, formd of joy and mirth, Go, love without the help of anything on earth. View quote
William Blake
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. View quote
Carl Jung
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. View quote
William Wordsworth
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth. View quote
Russell Baker
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world. (A. J. P. Taylor)
Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. View quote
Mark Twain
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
A man is great by deeds, not by birth. View quote
Chanakya
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. View quote
Emily Oster
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. View quote
Oliver Lodge
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream. View quote
Adam Schiff
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. View quote
Carol P. Christ
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth. (Ethan Suplee)
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. View quote
Harri Holkeri
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates. View quote
Helen Dunmore
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. View quote
Isaac Hayes
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis
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