For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth. — Barbara Katz Rothman Copy Share Image
As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. — John Clayton Copy Share Image
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I love to receive babies into this world, so crawling around on my knees in the birth room is my best place,… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother and I were alike in one crucial respect: We may have been Russian by birth, but we were English in… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable,… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe… — Henry Newbolt Copy Share Image
Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel: so we begin, that presently find kingdoms… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The goal of independence starts at birth and mothers who want to stay with their infants most of the time are viewed… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught” — Pascale Petit Copy Share Image
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas -… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
“They count that as your birthday -- the day your mother gets up." "Not the day you were born?" Not the day… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather,… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
“In the beginning there was Dust, and in the end there will be Dust, and in the middle there is Dust, Dust,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You Were Born To Be Real, Not To Be Perfect. Your Here To Be You , Not To Be What Someone Else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
