Birth Quotes
2462 quotes by 1595 authors
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After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and…
— Antonio Damasio
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Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then…
— Diane Setterfield
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I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and…
— Diane Setterfield
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There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
— Jim Crace
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And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.
— Daniel Quinn
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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested…
— Henry Miller
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From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.…
— Bertrand Russell
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She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give…
— Denis Johnson
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Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried…
— David McCullough
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Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The…
— Nicholas Sparks
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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
— William Blake
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Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!
— Aleister Crowley
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My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That…
— William Shakespeare
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I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots,
— Walt Whitman
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A person can't help their birth.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Are you her boyfriend?†... No, I’m her fiancé.†Nate said. We’ve been promised to each other since birth,†Summer added. Our wedding isn’t until…
— Brandon Mull
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The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media will only refer to partial birth abortion as 'what its opponents refer to as…
— Ann Coulter
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