Their Birth Quotes
40 quotes by 39 authors
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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
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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
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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