Birth Quotes

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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes… — Norman Cousins
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. — Christina Rossetti
Shadow owes its birth to light. — John Gay
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. — Charles de Montesquieu
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. — John Milton
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. — Muriel Spark
We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation… — Mahmoud Abbas
Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth,… — John Pearson
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that… — John Fiske
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. — Nancy Friday
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections;… — John Britton
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… — Bernard Barton
We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. — Albert Claude
Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth. — Wilford Brimley
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far… — Thomas Babington Macaulay
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children,… — Robert Casey
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and… — John Clayton
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. — John Clayton
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems… — Sydney Brenner
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit,… — Mary Antin

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