Their Birth Quotes

40 quotes by 39 authors

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That… — Edith Wharton
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as… — Eric Hoffer
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. — Baron de Montesquieu
Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought… — Saint Augustine
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a… — Max Lucado
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual… — Gloria Steinem
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land… — Luther Standing Bear
As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day… — Cyprian
They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid… — Andrew Solomon
Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that… — Pat Conroy
There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they… — Jean de la Bruyere
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their… — Jeremy Collier
The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into birth if they… — Michel Odent
If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a… — Shinichi Suzuki
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth,… — Chief Seattle
Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth… — Walter Scott
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights,… — Dick Gregory

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