Birth Quotes
(1 - 10 of 24)The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt more
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
birthday.
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There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has more
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as more
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them more
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, more
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
