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    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.

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I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them read 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.

by Maya Angelou Found in: Birth Quotes,
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found read more

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

by Sam Levinson Found in: Birth Quotes,
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most read more

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

by Eleanor Roosevelt Found in: Birth Quotes,
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About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

by Kin Hubbard Found in: Birth Quotes,
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No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving read more

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

by Smiley Blanton Found in: Birth Quotes,
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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.

by Josh Billings Found in: Birth Quotes,
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Birth is the beginning of death

Birth is the beginning of death

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Birth Quotes,
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Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has read 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.

by William Macneile Dixon Found in: Birth Quotes,
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

by Arthur Schopenhauer Found in: Birth Quotes,
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