Birth Quotes

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Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off… — Vera Nazarian
For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice… — Aristotle
You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your… — Henri Nouwen
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that thereâ€™s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not… — William H. Gass
We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting… — Michel Foucault
Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man,… — Jimmy Santiago Baca
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day… — Samuel Johnson
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind. — Bertrand Russell
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… — Joan Didion
We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be? — Mitch Albom
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. — Jacques Ellul
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify. — Robert Fulghum
Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give… — Terry Brooks
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's… — Elwyn Brooks White
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep… — Dean Koontz
Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a… — Jodi Picoult
I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builderâ€™s performance piece. The script was great.… — David Sedaris
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now… — E. M. Forster
We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it… — Ali Smith
We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death… — John Updike

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