Birth Quotes

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i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything… — E E Cummings
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble
I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people… — Jodi Picoult
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward… — Erich Maria Remarque
You have to remember one life, one deathâ€“this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death,… — Stephen Levine
Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and… — John le Carre
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and… — Philip Yancey
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from… — Denis Johnson
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the… — Emile M. Cioran
Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then. — Laura Moriarty
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… — Evelyn Underhill
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's… — Josephine Baker
Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash… — Rick Riordan
Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? — Anita Diament
nothing is slower than the true birth of a man — Marguerite Yourcenar
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and… — Fernando Pessoa
She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on their butts. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool,… — Giacomo Casanova
are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth? — Amin Maalouf
Sometimes our celebrations of notable occurrences seem to take on earthly color, and we do not fully realize the significance of the reason for the… — Spencer W. Kimball

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