"Birth is the sudden opening of a window,……" — William Macneile Dixon
"Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything."
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8 Quotes by William Macneile Dixon
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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
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All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot…
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To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.
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Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.
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Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.
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Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in…
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More Birth Quotes
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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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