Quotes with birth--except

Quotes 121 till 140 of 461.

  • Bryce Dallas Howard For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • John Milton For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Sophie Tucker 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, and from 55 on she needs cash.
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  • Stephen Hawking Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
    A Brief History of Time (1988)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Carol Burnett Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Plutarch Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Horace He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Charles Kingsley He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Pietro Metastasio High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
    Pietro Metastasio
    Italian poet and librettist (1698 - 1782)
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  • Oscar Wilde His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Christina Rossetti Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Birch Bayh 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
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Jeremy Collier How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Thornton Wilder I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Anthony Collins I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
    Anthony Collins
    English philosopher (1676 - 1729)
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  • Samuel Johnson I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde I can resist everything except temptation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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