Birth Quotes
2462 quotes by 1595 authors
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Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
— Toni Morrison
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Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body…
— Unknown Author
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Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its…
— Naomi Klein
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Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.
— Dorothy Parker
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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's…
— Abraham Verghese
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...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and…
— Janet Frame
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He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?
— Janet Evanovich
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The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many…
— Mitch Albom
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Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to…
— Milan Kundera
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..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse…
— Yukio Mishima
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Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
— Susan Sontag
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What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were…
— Jodi Picoult
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I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird.…
— Jason Mraz
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Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but…
— Jodi Picoult
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I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.
— Robert Munsch
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Why would you train an instrument of destruction? (Jericho) We all choose our destinies. Our birth doesn’t dictate our future unless we allow it. (Acheron)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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