Birth Quotes

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The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson
Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on… — Lewis H. Lapham
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift… — Friedrich Nietzsche
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next… — Maria Montessori
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as… — Eric Hoffer
Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet… — Malcolm Gladwell
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report.… — George Carlin
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,… — P.J. O'Rourke
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands… — Thomas Jefferson
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and… — John F. Kennedy
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through… — James A. Baldwin
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them. — Moliere
Whatsoever thy birth, thou were a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth. — Lord Byron
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. — Alfred North Whitehead
Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. — Ambrose Bierce
The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'... — William Blake
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth. — Abraham Maslow

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