Quotes and Sayings about Birth
"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Movies, Mother)
"I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Birthday, Party)
"I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Time, Father, Being)
"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Birthday, Police)
"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Life, Growth, Body, First, Spirit)
"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Growth, Mothers, Spiritual)
"Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo."
- Nicole Appleton
(Related: Giving)
"Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids."
- Roseanne Barr Arnold
(Related: Control, Bed, Birth control, Kids, Night)
"At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth."
- Leon Askin
(Related: Life, End, Fame)
"If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days."
- John Aubrey
(Related: Death, Day, May, Remarkable)
"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Nature, Death)
"With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history."
- Ibrahim Babangida
(Related: History, Ideas, Being, Body, March, Present)
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
- Thomas Babington
(Related: Government, People, Nothing, Words)
"None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours."
- Thomas Babington
(Related: Accident, Being, Popular, Security)
"I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny."
- Michele Bachmann
(Related: Government, Babies, State, Talk)
"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Time, First, Living)
"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion."
- Ginger Baker
(Related: Abortion)
"Every man should see the birth of his children."
- Dennis Banks
(Related: Children, Man)
"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: Joy, Pregnancy)
"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Old, Question, Youth)
"That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life."
- Amelia Barr
(Related: Death, Life, Mistake, Kings)
"Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot."
- Bernard Barton
(Related: Thoughts, Chance, Earth, Fancy, Feeling)
"The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields."
- Joe Barton
(Related: Men, Women, Birthday, Act, American, Democracy, Iraq, Justice, Liberty, Nation, Symbol)
"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Certainty, Delight, Evil, Lies)
"How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born."
- Birch Bayh
(Related: Life, Baby, Forget, Importance, Months, Poverty)
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
- Samuel Beckett
(Related: Grave, Light, Night)
"Birth was the death of him."
- Samuel Beckett
(Related: Death)
"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Accident, Will)
"The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: People, Fun, Guest, Play, Will)
"Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves."
- Robert Neelly Bellah
(Related: Home, Sense)
"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Consciousness, Country, Dignity, Man, Value)
"I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days."
- Otis Blackwell
(Related: Birthday, People, College, Remembrance, State)
"And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint."
- Algernon H. Blackwood
(Related: Thought, Heart, Control, Emotion, Restraint)
"Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Marxism, Miracles, Myths)
"Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will."
- Bodhidharma
(Related: Death, Will)
"And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment."
- Bodhidharma
(Related: Death)
"I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present."
- Uwe Boll
(Related: Birthday, Home, Games, Play, Present)
"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."
- Robert Bolt
(Related: Death, Day, Will)
"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Car)
"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Birthday, Wife, HusbFriend)
"The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: African, states)
"I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability."
- Susan Boyle
(Related: People, Ability, Awareness, Disability, Want)
"Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house."
- Georg Brandes
"The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology."
- Sydney Brenner
(Related: Key, Problems, Understanding)
"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."
- Wilford Brimley
(Related: Accident)
"The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers."
- John Britton
(Related: Life, Feelings, Strangers, Years)
"True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale."
- Harold Brodkey
(Related: People)
"My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Birthday, Kiss, Performance, Destiny)
"I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar."
- Jackson Browne
(Related: Money, Time, Birthday, Father, Guitar, Interest, Play)
"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."
- Jackson Browne
(Related: Birthday)
"There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Death, Life, Being, Events, Man, Pain)
"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: People, Character, Care)
"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Death, Events, Man)
"This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security."
- Art Buchwald
(Related: Birthday, Security)
"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."
- Carol Burnett
(Related: Giving)
"We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic."
- Lance Burton
(Related: Birthday, Money, Time, Books, Christmas, Growing up, Help, Jobs, Magic, Rest)
"Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible."
- Isaac Butt
(Related: Death, Grave)
"My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Life)
"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."
- Lewis Carroll
(Related: Birthday)
"We're more effective than birth control pills."
- Johnny Carson
(Related: Control, Birth control)
"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."
- Elliott Carter
(Related: London, Paris)
"There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew."
- William Cartwright
(Related: Life, First, Light, Sense)
"The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth."
- Robert Casey
(Related: Women, Abortion, Children, Freedom, Now, Security)
"Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime."
- Margaret Cavendish
(Related: Nature, Actions, Body, Breeding, Crime, Mind)
"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
- Chanakya
(Related: Deeds, Man)
"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."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Death, Life, Nature, Delight, Diversity, Europe, Old, Unity)
"In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Death, Religion, Life)
"We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth."
- Albert Claude
(Related: Wealth)
"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos."
- Jill Clayburgh
(Related: Birthday, Family, Son, Career, Children, Party, Thinking, Writing)
"The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other."
- John Clayton
(Related: Christ, Christmas, Competition, Focus, Guilt, Pressure, World)
"The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence."
- John Clayton
(Related: Legal, Society, Christ)
"Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone."
- Powell Clayton
(Related: Idea, Conservative, Liberalism)
"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Death, Day, Walking)
"The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Death, Day, Walking)
"Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth."
- Richard J. Codey
(Related: Mom, Time, Mother, Depression, First, Months, Mothers)
"It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth."
- Susan Collins
(Related: Women, Care, First, Military, Needs)
"He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech."
- John Colville
(Related: Poetry, Speech)
"Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea."
- James Bryant Conant
(Related: Life, Idea)
"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity."
- Anna Julia Cooper
(Related: Cause, Class, Freedom, Humanity, Party, Race)
"The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once."
- E. Joseph Cossman
(Related: Birthday, Wife)
"Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate."
- Ann Coulter
"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: History, Life, Ideas)
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: History, Life, Ideas, Famous, Metaphor)
"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."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
(Related: Earth, Gravity, Man, Weight)
"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Birthday, Want)
"My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love."
- Billy Crystal
(Related: Love, Want, Will)
"Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe."
- Georges Cuvier
(Related: Earth, Theory)
"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage."
- Puff Daddy
(Related: Birthday, Books, Fans)
"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."
- Rodney Dangerfield
(Related: Control, Birth control)
"With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me."
- Rodney Dangerfield
(Related: Birthday, Wife, Man, Respect, Woman)
"You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city."
- Edwidge Danticat
(Related: Travel, Government, People)
"Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits."
- Dale Dauten
(Related: Benefits, Bureaucracy)
"With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years."
- Thayer David
(Related: Birthday, Acting, Now, Years)
"It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues."
- W. H. Davies
"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."
- Rebecca H. Davis
(Related: Death, Guests, May)
"Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Now, states, United)
"On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Citizenship, Countries, Country, Israel, Majority)
"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art."
- Robert Delaunay
(Related: Art, Soul, Communication, Earth, Evolution, Man, Moments)
"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."
- Robert Delaunay
(Related: Light, Painting)
"The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: Control, Birth control, Causes, Evolution, Kids, Mothers, Parents, Schools, Teaching, Violence, Youth)
"Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Life, Daughter, Illusion, Living, May)
"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
- Jacques Derrida
(Related: Life, Chance, Open)
"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."
- Ani DiFranco
(Related: Death, Want)
"It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution."
- Annie Dillard
(Related: Birthday, Evolution, Present, Self)
"You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen."
- Joe DiMaggio
(Related: Birthday, Party)
"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."
- Willie Dixon
(Related: Possibility, Nothing)
"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."
- Helen Dunmore
(Related: Time, Parents, Teachers)
"Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death."
- Jennifer Dunn
(Related: Death, Government, Marriage)
"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
(Related: Control, Birth control, Hunger)
"Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Time, First, Kids, Moments, Night)
"Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning."
- Charles Eastman
(Related: Deed, Meaning, Names, Religious, Spirit)
"It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Parents)
"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me."
- Meister Eckhart
(Related: God, Father, Eternity, Lies)
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
- Manfred Eigen
(Related: Theory)
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Death, Growth)
"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth."
- George Eliot
(Related: Trying)
"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."
- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Death, Thought)
"Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Life, Effect)
"I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth."
- Dakota Fanning
(Related: Act)
"Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control."
- Freddy Fender
(Related: Control, Argument, Birth control, Prejudice, Smile)
"Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other."
- Eugene Field
(Related: Thought, Ideas, Extreme)
"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."
- Isla Fisher
(Related: Birthday, Boyfriend, Old, Years)
"We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ."
- John Fiske
(Related: Christ, World)
"I was famous from birth."
- Peter Fonda
(Related: Famous)
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Death, Life, Love, Food, Facts, Sleep)
"We are African in origin and American in birth."
- Timothy Thomas Fortune
(Related: African, American)
"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Experience, Act, Anxiety, First)
"When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself."
- Nancy Friday
(Related: Mother, Eyes, Woman)
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
- Erich Fromm
(Related: Hope)
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
- Erich Fromm
(Related: Life, Effort, Man, Personality)
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Age, Birthday, Man, Woman)
"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Death, May, Understanding)
"I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book."
- Stephen Fry
"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Birthday, Fame, Hollywood, Present)
"I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children."
- Diane von Furstenberg
(Related: Birthday, Children, Excuses, Party)
"I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge."
- William Gaddis
(Related: Computer, World)
"Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement."
- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Marriage, Society, Idea, Dying, Europe)
"Shadow owes its birth to light."
- John Gay
(Related: Light, Shadow)
"Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: Progress, Encouraging, Country, Rebirth)
"Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: Americans, Independence, Nation, Principles, Tyranny)
"You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us."
- Robin Gibb
(Related: Birthday, People, Future, Loss, Man, World)
"When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Mother, Evolution, Race, Right, World)
"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Forget)
"There is still no cure for the common birthday."
- John Glenn
(Related: Birthday, Cure)
"The birth of any show is always a rough one."
- Genevieve Gorder
"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children."
- Maxim Gorky
(Related: Children, Future, Mothers)
"But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love."
- Amy Grant
(Related: Love, American, Favorite, Holiday, Songs)
"The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge."
- Simon Greenleaf
(Related: Religion, Death, Knowledge, Fact, Miracles)
"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children."
- Germaine Greer
(Related: Children, Population)
"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."
- Lady Gregory
(Related: Punishment, Saying)
"I hate birthdays."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Hate)
"Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body."
- Susan Griffin
(Related: Nature, Society, Death, Life, Body, Nothing, Philosophy)
"A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation."
- Stanislav Grof
(Related: Death, Time, Opportunity, Buddhism, Rebirth, Spiritual)
"Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory."
- Henry Anatole Grunwald
(Related: Home, Memory)
"The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living."
- Arlo Guthrie
(Related: Death, Living)
"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new."
- Sammy Hagar
(Related: Birthday, Chance)
"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Adolescence, Now)
"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave."
- Joseph Hall
(Related: Death, Grave)
"When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk."
- Marvin Harris
(Related: Mother, Ability, Needs, Old, Woman)
"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
- George Harrison
(Related: Birthday, World)
"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."
- Vaclav Havel
(Related: Life, Hope, Absurdity, Doubt, First, Sense)
"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."
- Isaac Hayes
(Related: Brothers, Name, Nothing, Schools)
"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that."
- Patricia Heaton
(Related: Mother)
"I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!"
- Tippi Hedren
(Related: Thought, Animals, Pets)
"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Birthday, Success)
"On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections."
- Eva Herzigova
(Related: Birthday)
"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart."
- Hesiod
(Related: Heart, Children, Grief, Spirit)
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear."
- Thomas W. Higginson
(Related: Government, People, Nothing, Words)
"Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth."
- Aaron Hill
(Related: Thoughts, Beliefs, Consequences, Morals)
"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Birthday)
"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."
- Dustin Hoffman
(Related: Boredom, Rebirth)
"Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain."
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
(Related: Experience, Earth, Man, Tradition)
"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."
- Harri Holkeri
(Related: Education, Control, Birth control, Poverty, Question, Want)
"I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth."
- Lauren Holly
(Related: Trying)
"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Birthday, People, Night, Waiting)
"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world."
- Horace
(Related: Death, World)
"If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it."
- David Horowitz
(Related: Birthday, Time, Congress, Holiday, Martin, Years)
"Death is feared as birth is forgotten."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Death)
"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical."
- Rex Hunt
(Related: Death, People, Fish, Fishing, Old, Teaching)
"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace."
- King Hussein I
(Related: Life, Peace, Work, Fear, Children, Dawn, Living, Want)
"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die."
- Ivan Illich
(Related: Diet, Work, People, Growth, Dying, Environment, Healing)
"The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: Positive, Democracy, Iraq)
"Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work."
- Karl Jaspers
(Related: Work, Birthday, Life, Philosophy)
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Government, Hope, Strength, Aristocracy, Challenge, Corporations, Country, Defiance, Laws)
"I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would."
- David Edward Jenkins
(Related: God, Doubt, Past)
"My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her."
- Guy Johnson
(Related: Poetry, Birthday, Mother)
"I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?"
- Randy Johnson
(Related: Age, People, Numbers, Questioning)
"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Birthday, Thoughts, Care, Humanity)
"Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this."
- E. Stanley Jones
(Related: Blood, First, Heredity, Parents)
"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."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Imagination, Work, Debt, Fantasy, Play)
"Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Life, Hesitation)
"If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Life, Hesitation)
"Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person."
- Abdul Kalam
(Related: Life)
"For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception."
- Bernard Katz
(Related: Power, Religion, Care, Deception)
"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish."
- John Keats
(Related: Nature, Fire, Heroism, Human nature, Pity, Wonder)
"We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals."
- Arthur Keith
"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Death, Marriage, People, Emotions, May, Moments)
"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."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Birth, Dying, Enjoyment, Giving, Labor, Man, Struggle, Woman)
"Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things."
- Evel Knievel
(Related: Power, People, Control, Birth control, Country, Gold, Population, Water)
"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."
- Dean Koontz
(Related: Love, Death, Hope, World)
"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Idea, Feeling)
"Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Change, Growth, Rebirth, Spiritual)
"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."
- Jacques Lacan
(Related: Deals, Existence, First, Language, Man, Words)
"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."
- Dalai Lama
(Related: Religion, Compassion, Kindness, Rebirth)
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
- Charles Lamb
(Related: Birthday, Man, New year)
"I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth."
- Jessica Lange
(Related: Love, Men, Mother, Sister, Wife, Daughter, Being, Woman)
"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area."
- James Larkin
(Related: Religion, Conscience, Question)
"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Crisis, Effect, Order, Rhetoric)
"Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Children, Fault, Parents)
"One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice."
- William P. Leahy
(Related: People, Control, Abortion, Birth control, Civil rights, Divorce, Justice)
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
- Sam Levenson
(Related: Birthday, Son, End)
"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."
- Sam Levenson
(Related: Giving, Woman)
"Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: People, Day, Perspective)
"It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents."
- John Linder
(Related: Legal, Fact)
"Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon."
- John Linder
(Related: Country, Freedom, Soldiers)
"The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel."
- Hal Lindsey
(Related: Israel, Land, Rebirth)
"Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Death, Fear, Word)
"We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son."
- Dave Lombardo
(Related: Wife, Son, Baby, First, Months)
"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."
- Cesare Lombroso
(Related: Genius, Appearance)
"You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room."
- Jennifer Lopez
(Related: Love, Birthday, Time, Flowers, Romantic, Wrong)
"Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake."
- Walter Lord
(Related: Birthday)
"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
- Sophia Loren
(Related: Poverty)
"The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of."
- Gary Lucas
(Related: Ability, Baby, Collaboration, Desire)
"Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic."
- Lorna Luft
(Related: Death, Mother)
"If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Imagination, Enemy)
"We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same."
- Joanna Lumley
(Related: Now)
"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: Birthday, Time, Sun, World)
"My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Birthday, April, Present)
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
- Thomas B. Macaulay
(Related: Government, People, Nothing, Words)
"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."
- Anne Sullivan Macy
(Related: Growth, First, Living, Mind, Privilege)
"Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor."
- Bill Maher
"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
- Bill Maher
(Related: People, Gay, Kids, Law, Right)
"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."
- Ella Maillart
(Related: Time, Home, Inheritance, Possession, World)
"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
- Thomas Mann
(Related: Beauty, Poetry, Solitude)
"Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Talent, Country, Culture, Humanity)
"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Birthday, Christmas, Want, Waste, Wrong)
"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."
- Bobby McFerrin
(Related: Birthday, Time, Accident, Living, Present)
"Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns."
- Bryant H. McGill
(Related: Death)
"I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it."
- Michael McKean
(Related: Love, Friends, Living, Reason)
"I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know."
- Marian McPartland
(Related: Birthday, Lawyers, Party, Trying)
"The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Mind, Pain)
"I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream."
- Thomas Francis Meagher
(Related: Intelligence, Dream, Death, Birth, Country, Freedom, Now)
"And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Birthday, Boston, Events, Neighbors, Support, Will)
"I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit."
- Yehudi Menuhin
(Related: Music, Being, Body, Mind, Spirit)
"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."
- John Milton
(Related: Truth, World)
"My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area."
- George J. Mitchell
(Related: Mother, Father, Son, Boston, Ireland, Parents, states, United)
"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."
- Charles de Montesquieu
(Related: Death, Men)
"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."
- Charles de Montesquieu
(Related: Death, Men)
"There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death."
- Charles Louis de Secondat Montes
(Related: Death, Man, Weeping)
"A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year."
- Roger Moore
(Related: Christian, Months, Reading, Will)
"I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter."
- Daniel Morgan
(Related: God, Cause, Christ, First, Goodness, Rebirth, World)
"The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Power, Women, Control, Church, Abortion, Birth control)
"Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death."
- Desmond Morris
(Related: Death, Life, Visit)
"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good."
- Daniel P. Moynihan
(Related: Government, Life, Liberals, Skepticism)
"And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary."
- Graeme Murphy
(Related: Birthday, Dance, Company)
"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
- Len G. Murray
(Related: Death, Experience, Cosmos, Emotion, Man, Zenith)
"The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug."
- Patty Murray
(Related: Control, Abortion, Birth control)
"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."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Fate, First, Nations)
"I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?"
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Death)
"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Marriage, People, Alliance)
"It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people."
- Stevie Nicks
(Related: Birthday, Dad, Mom, People, Guitar, Song, Songs)
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Chaos, Dancing)
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Chaos, Dancing)
"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains."
- Peggy Noonan
"The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War."
- Kenzaburo Oe
(Related: Peace, War, Morality, Rebirth)
"John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time."
- Maureen O'Hara
(Related: Time, Birthday)
"I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around."
- Leonard Orr
(Related: People, Ideas, Community, Open, Want)
"Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth."
- Leonard Orr
(Related: Mind)
"As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: Life, Father, Joy, Pain, World)
"I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: Legislation, March, Prevention, Research)
"Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event."
- Heinz R. Pagels
(Related: Animals, May, Stars)
"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."
- Chuck Palahniuk
(Related: Life, Mistake, Trying)
"My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much."
- Gwyneth Paltrow
(Related: Death, Life, Father, HusbDaughter, Meeting)
"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
- Boris Pasternak
(Related: Isolation, Woman)
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Time)
"You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life."
- Pope Paul VI
(Related: Life, Control, Guests, Mankind, Order)
"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."
- John Pearson
(Related: Death, Life, Nothing, World)
"Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense."
- Charles Perrault
(Related: Time, Son, Queen, Sense, Ugly)
"Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it."
- Ellis Peters
(Related: Death, Cowards, Expectation, Heroes)
"I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper."
- Emo Philips
(Related: Men, Ladies, Pain)
"There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday."
- John L. Phillips
(Related: Birthday, Right, Space)
"It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures."
- John Phillips
(Related: Death, Life, Victory, Frustration, Horses)
"One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy."
- Mary Pickford
(Related: Loss, Man, Privacy, Public)
"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."
- Harold Pinter
(Related: Birthday, Party, Play)
"A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: War, Birth, Man, Woman)
"Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that."
- Emily Prager
(Related: Beauty, Suffering, Woman)
"As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center."
- Salvatore Quasimodo
(Related: Literary, Now, Order)
"A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence."
- Marc Racicot
(Related: Decision, Abortion, Americans, Congress, Flies, Legislation, Majority, President, Violence)
"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
- Ayn Rand
(Related: Culture, Ethics, Needs, Rebirth)
"Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly."
- Otto Rank
"They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death."
- Dixie Lee Ray
(Related: Death, Life, Time, Being)
"There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town."
- Michael Richards
(Related: Labor)
"My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Control, Birth control, Now)
"My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Dumb)
"Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Daughter, Kids, Now, Respect, Sleep, Years)
"The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Heart, Mind, Speech)
"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Nature, Being, Man, Vices)
"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
- Norman Rockwell
(Related: Fool, Hell)
"If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?"
- Jim Rogers
(Related: Countries, Debt, Will)
"Labor gives birth to ideas."
- Jim Rohn
(Related: Ideas, Labor)
"If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no."
- Cesar Romero
(Related: Change, Day, February, Hollywood)
"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 should be curiosity."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
(Related: Mother, Curiosity)
"I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement."
- Pete Rose
(Related: Birthday, Daughter)
"Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth."
- Christina Rossetti
(Related: Hope)
"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Education, Strength, Man, Reason)
"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed."
- Dora Russell
(Related: Women, Control, Birth control, First, Poor, Question)
"God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children."
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
(Related: Power, God, Cause, Children, First, Man, Woman)
"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Man, Woman)
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
- George Santayana
(Related: Death, Cure)
"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."
- May Sarton
(Related: Darkness, Flowers, Help, Light, Nothing, Spirit)
"All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline."
- Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
"Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy."
- Jan Schakowsky
(Related: History, Ability, Democracy, Denial, Nation, Right, Vote)
"All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me."
- Egon Schiele
(Related: Joy, United, Vitality, Will)
"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."
- Adam Schiff
(Related: Dream, Opportunity, Progress, America, Martin, Nation)
"Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Citizenship)
"It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Citizenship, Parents)
"Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss."
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(Related: Kiss, First, Thinking)
"It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like."
- Jack Schmitt
(Related: Love, First, First love, Trying)
"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."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Death, Day, Rest, Sleep, Waking, Youth)
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Death, Will)
"If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'"
- Luke Scott
(Related: Being)
"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."
- Charles de Secondat
(Related: Death, Man)
"At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth."
- Harry Seidler
(Related: Age, Artist, Rebirth)
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Birthday, Fear, Eternity)
"I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit."
- Amanda Seyfried
(Related: Birthday)
"When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death: ourselves."
- Eda J. Le Shan
(Related: Value, Will)
"I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years."
- Wallace Shawn
(Related: People, Vanity, Years)
"You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed."
- Cybill Shepherd
(Related: History, Women, Being, Television)
"It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet."
- Cybill Shepherd
(Related: Health, Women, First, Freedom, Talk)
"One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday."
- Bobby Sherman
(Related: Birthday, Love, Parents)
"Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion."
- Brooke Shields
(Related: People, Control, Abortion, Birth control, Wrong)
"Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real."
- Ashlee Simpson
(Related: Giving, Pregnancy)
"Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday."
- O. J. Simpson
(Related: Birthday, Mother, Conversation, Honor, May, Will)
"But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies."
- Erika Slezak
(Related: Experience, Nature, Children)
"Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name."
- Anna Nicole Smith
(Related: Name)
"It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions."
- Goldwin Smith
(Related: History, Doctrine, Evolution, Influence, Investigation, Study)
"I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Voice)
"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years."
- Lillian Smith
(Related: Giving, Man, Protest, Woman, Years)
"I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty."
- Brittany Snow
(Related: Birthday, Time, Parents, Pretty)
"To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it."
- Sophocles
"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."
- Sophocles
(Related: Children, Enemies, Laughter)
"Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth."
- Sophocles
(Related: Gratitude)
"I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control."
- Muriel Spark
(Related: Mother, Thought, Control, Birth control, Pity)
"The whole world is a man's birthplace."
- Caecilius Statius
(Related: Man, World)
"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
- Gertrude Stein
(Related: Forget, Population, Propaganda)
"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one."
- Gloria Steinem
(Related: Conquest, Self)
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
- Stendhal
(Related: Love, Hope, Cause)
"The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts."
- David Friedrich Strauss
(Related: Christ, Facts, May, Miracles, Reality, Supernatural)
"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Personality)
"I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day."
- Mark Strong
(Related: Time, Bizarre, Day)
"When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."
- Gloria Stuart
(Related: Birthday, Thought, July)
"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
- Jock Sturges
(Related: Obvious, Will)
"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy."
- Jock Sturges
(Related: Children, First, Mothers, Pregnancy, Question, Right)
"The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species."
- Jock Sturges
(Related: Truth)
"I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth."
- Ethan Suplee
(Related: Home, Hippies, Parents)
"I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday."
- Sarah Sutton
(Related: Birthday, Love, Boyfriend, Photography)
"I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party."
- Matthew Sweet
(Related: Birthday, Time, Party)
"The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him."
- Matthew Sweet
(Related: Birthday, Party, Summer)
"My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age."
- Koichi Tanaka
(Related: Age, Mother, Giving)
"Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth."
- Koichi Tanaka
(Related: Family, Acceptance, Parents, University)
"I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me."
- Rod Taylor
(Related: Birthday, Night, Party)
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."
- Tertullian
(Related: Murder, Prevention)
"Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended."
- Keith Thibodeaux
(Related: Birthday, Care)
"But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world."
- John Thorn
(Related: Dreams, Baseball, Competition, Heroes, Prosperity, World)
"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."
- James Thurber
(Related: Years)
"The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Daughter, Feelings, Cause, Difficulties, Tragedy)
"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Birthday, Hollywood)
"Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday."
- Lawrence Tierney
(Related: Birthday, People)
"There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth."
- John Travolta
(Related: Emotions, Pain)
"Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth."
- Anthony Trollope
(Related: Money)
"A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate."
- Donald Trump
(Related: Imagination)
"From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash."
- Sophie Tucker
(Related: Age, Needs, Parents, Personality)
"Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it."
- Mao Tse Tung
(Related: Day, Investigation, May, Months, Pregnancy)
"I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life."
- Tina Turner
(Related: Life, Time, Want)
"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin."
- Desmond Tutu
(Related: Land, Skin, Vote)
"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."
- Mark Twain
"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."
- Liv Tyler
(Related: Birthday, Age, Thought, Old)
"When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace."
- Morihei Ueshiba
(Related: Life, Peace, Death, Struggle)
"Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit."
- Liv Ullmann
(Related: Spirit)
"My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it."
- Blair Underwood
(Related: Birthday, Son, Chance, Film, Friends, Party)
"I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough."
- Johnny Vegas
(Related: Birthday, Kids, Old, Party)
"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
- Johnny Vegas
(Related: Birthday, Sex, Mind, School)
"My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son."
- Conrad Veidt
(Related: Home, Mother, Father, Brother, Son, Jealousy, Pride)
"Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?"
- Alfred de Vigny
(Related: Thought, Actions, Feeling)
"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."
- Kurt Vonnegut
(Related: Birthday, People, Astrology, Communism, Possibilities)
"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Talent, Attitude)
"It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed."
- Julie Walters
(Related: Being, Kids)
"As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them."
- Julie Walters
(Related: People, Kids)
"I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me."
- Len Wein
(Related: Nature)
"Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life."
- Jerry Weller
(Related: Life, Mother, Abortion)
"The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Man)
"I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music."
- Barry White
(Related: Music, Birthday, School)
"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."
- Thornton Wilder
(Related: Death, Choice, Day, May, Mind)
"The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world."
- David Wilkerson
(Related: Men, Teen, Challenge, Houses, Training, World)
"I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby."
- Jayson Williams
(Related: Family, Baby, Want)
"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars."
- Bruce Willis
(Related: Experience, Open)
"It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive."
- Charles Erwin Wilson
(Related: Control, Birth control, Past, Talk, Trying)
"When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Heart)
"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
- Virginia Woolf
(Related: Sense, Youth)
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."
- Virginia Woolf
(Related: Experience, People, Body, Thinking, Voice, Years)
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."
- William Wordsworth
(Related: Clouds, Forgetfulness, Glory, Sleep)
"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."
- Steven Wright
(Related: Birthday, Fight)
"I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'"
- Steven Wright
(Related: Birthday, Singing)
"Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire."
- Edward Young
(Related: Death, Fire, Nothing, Waste)