"Shadow owes its birth to light." — John Gay

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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
• Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. — Marcus Aurelius
• As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as… — Francis Bacon
• They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should… — Ginger Baker
• There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of… — James A. Baldwin
• When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I… — Joyce Banda
• That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
• Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids. — Roseanne Barr
• The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from… — Charles Baudelaire
• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
• Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. — Max Beerbohm

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