"Remember, most of us got something for nothing……" — Robert Fulghum
"Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify."
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148 Quotes by Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum has 148 quotes on this site.
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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and…
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If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand…
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I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When…
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To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To…
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I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of…
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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs…
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I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form…
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Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the…
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If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a…
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The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The…
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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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