Birth Quotes
2462 quotes by 1595 authors
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I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent.…
— Jodi Picoult
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She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all…
— Kelly Corrigan
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we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.
— Jeffrey Archer
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Is birth always a fall?
— Salman Rushdie
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
— Ann Brashares
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the…
— Louise Erdrich
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Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at…
— Mary Roach
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How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich…
— Anais Nin
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My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
— Andrew Marvell
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Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
— William Shakespeare
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...Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the…
— P. C. Cast
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I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.
— Bill Maher
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You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits.…
— Libba Bray
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Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of…
— Charles Dickens
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Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope…
— George Harrison
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Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living…
— Temple Grandin
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At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains.…
— Ayn Rand
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Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone…
— Margaret George
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