Birth Quotes

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History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future,… — Friedrich Schiller
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. — Horace
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately… — Pliny the Elder
I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in… — Frederick Douglass
High birth is an accident, not a virtue. — Pietro Metastasio
You cannot immunize sick, malnourished children and expect them to get away with it. You'll kill far more children than would have died from natural… — Archie Kalokerinos
For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth. — Alice Cary
Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that… — Hillary Clinton
A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the… — Maria Montessori
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you… — Michel de Montaigne
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a… — Eric Hoffer
One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth. — John Burroughs
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children… — Margaret Mead
My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my… — Kajol
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,… — Annie Dillard
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights,… — Dick Gregory
There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start. — William McFee

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