For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Birth and death," Chet said. "The poles of human existence. We're like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My father marched in Selma. My father was there in Alabama. That's where I was born. My birth certificate says 'colored.' It… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My gut knotted as I wrote from the point of view of characters whose lives were rooted in bigotry and intolerance. But… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die.… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey.… — Ben Vereen Copy Share Image
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The Kalambo River and Waterfall exemplify life and afterlife: From birth at its source, the river twists and turns to overcome hurdles… — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“Yes, contractions can be intense,' Noura continues. 'But your bodies are designed to handle it. And what you must remember is, it's… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
While the One Child Policy has been effective in drastically reducing Chinese birth rates, the measures adopted in its name have required… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We were born to be friends. We both knew it. The Australian Aborigines have the traditional belief that a complete human being… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I believe every woman has the right to any birth experience she wants, wherever she chooses and with whatever care provider she's… — Ricki Lake Copy Share Image
I trained the day before I gave birth and the only reason I didn't on the day I was giving birth was… — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
“I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity… — Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Copy Share Image
“You don't choose to be born. You just are. And your birth is your destiny, some say. I say the hell with… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“You are a midwife, assisting at someone else's birth. Do good without show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what… — John Heider Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
