Birth Quotes
2462 quotes by 1595 authors
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Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but…
— Annie Dillard
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Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of…
— Steve Toltz
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to…
— Robert Frost
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Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle…
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Vee is my un-twin. She's green-eyed, milky blond, and a few pounds over curvy. I'm a smoky-eyed brunette with volumes of curly hair that holds…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.
— George R. R. Martin
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Yes, but you are still only human.†I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for…
— Susanna Kearsley
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But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust…
— Jack Kerouac
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The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious…
— Jack Kerouac
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The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such…
— Steven Pressfield
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For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction…
— Flannery O'Connor
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In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking…
— Richard Brautigan
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Is there something I can help with?†“No,†Kat said petulantly. “You’re a man and I hate all of you right now.†He took two…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.
— Isabel Allende
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Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one for sorrow, two…
— Cassandra Clare
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It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.
— Nicholas Sparks
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