Birth Quotes
2462 quotes by 1595 authors
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Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever…
— Giordano Bruno
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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have…
— Michel Foucault
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If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
— Emile Durkheim
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There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't…
— Kathy Ireland
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Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.
— Anna Nicole Smith
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Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of…
— Dora Russell
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My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very…
— Morena Baccarin
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I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not…
— Joe Klein
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I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it…
— Amanda Burton
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Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works,…
— Susan Griffin
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I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in…
— Eve Arnold
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And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally…
— Algernon Blackwood
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How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about…
— Birch Bayh
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature,…
— Margaret Cavendish
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Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.
— Jennifer Dunn
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Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.
— Lou Ferrigno
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The birth of any show is always a rough one.
— Genevieve Gorder
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