Quotes with birth

Quotes 101 till 120 of 123.

  • George Santayana There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Jim Crace There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
    Jim Crace
    English writer and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aristotle This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Paracelsus Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Brooke Shields 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
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bob Ross Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Henry Miller Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Meister Eckhart 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
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Albert Claude We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Arthur Keith 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
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • James Baldwin We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Daniel Defoe Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Bernard Barton 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
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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  • Robert Frost What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Mark Twain Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung 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 Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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