"Is life a pregnancy? That would make death…" — Florida Scott-Maxwell
"Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth."
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17 Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell
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I grow more intense as I age.
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Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.
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Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed…
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Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.
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Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and…
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Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties…
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The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or…
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My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This…
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We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost…
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Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that…
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More Birth Quotes
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one of 2,462 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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