Quotes with birth

  • No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
  • Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
  • The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.
  • Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
  • 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.
  • A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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  • Stendhal A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Samuel Beckett Birth was the death of him.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Brad Sherman Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Dick Gregory Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
    Dick Gregory
    African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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  • Adam Schiff 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
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant I’ve learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Sam Levenson Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • E. M. Forster A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Norman Cousins A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Voltaire All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Thomas Szasz Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.
    Toward the Therapeutic State
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Bodhidharma And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood 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
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Samuel Butler Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • T. S. Eliot Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bodhidharma Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Karl Marx Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Aaron Hill Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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