Birth Quote by Dionne Brand Download Open image ““They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.”” — Dionne Brand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Birth
“I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.” — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city” — Thabo Katlholo Copy Share Image
“To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions,… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Beware of saying to them that sometimes different cities follow one another on the same site and under the same name, born and dying… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“There are few of us who do not believe that there is something special about the place in which we were born.” — Richard D. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In fact, the people who live in this town exist—millions of them. They just don’t happen to all live in the same town.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“You’ve lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.” — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“The sea sounded like a thousand secrets, all whispered at the same time.” — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time. — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death. — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“..would I have had a different life failing this embrace with broken things, iridescent veins, ecstatic bullets, small cracks in the brain, would I… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“And on the sidewalks, after they've emerged from the stations, after being sandpapered by the jostling and scraping that a city like this does,… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“There were Italian neighbourhood and Vietnamese neighbourhoods in this city; there are Chinese ones and Ukrainian ones and Pakistani ones and Korean ones and… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“I run each morning, two, three, sometimes four kilometers. Part of March, all of April, all of May. I can’t run five. I am… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for… — Roxanne Shante Copy Share Image
