All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body.
Jean Paul RichterI'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
Darryl DawkinsCrabs do not give birth to a bird.
AnonymousSome decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite
Edmund BurkeThere is still no cure for the common birthday.
John GlennMy obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.
Joan RiversOur birth is nothing but our death begun.
Edward YoungIt was my 13th birthday and I have treasured it ever since [Peggy Sue].
It is the greatest single ever made. I still have it, but rarely play it for fear of damaging it.
John GribbinYou can tell it's a journalist's child because all he wants to do is to drink and sleep. [on birth of his third child]
John HumphreysGiving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol BurnettDeath borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave
Joseph HallIt is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Jean De La BruyereA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma BombeckThe most effective form of birth control known to man is a Bronx accent [that's a little bit harsh on people from the Bronx isn't it Lewis?]
Lewis GrizzardWe do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Thornton WilderWith my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
Rodney DangerfieldAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerWe should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.
Shirley FranklinWhen I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.
Jackie VernonIt was like having
an 8 month hangover! [when about to give birth]
Debra StephensonBirth was the death of him.
Samuel BeckettThere is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James ThurberCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
Aaron HillOur birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul RichterA noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light
George LilloBirth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
Mahatma GandhiWashington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
Alistair CookeTo understand the mysteries of life you must look around and within. You will see patterns everywhere; patterns that seem to manifest themselves over and over again. These patterns exist intertwined within nature and man bridging the gap between the enigma of self and universe. You see them in spiraling galaxies and the Mandelbrot fractal of fossilized Ammonoidea; growing from the unknown to atoms to molecules to solar systems to galaxies to the paradoxical expanses of the universe with origins and destinations unknown; just like us in birth and death. The similarities of tree branches, rivers and blood veins. The power of cellular division and nuclear fission, the patterns of finger prints like endoplasmic reticulum, or a black opal's play of fire like the nebula of supernova. Moon shots are like protoplasmic lurches, while simple thoughts and observations of the nature around us take us beyond the unknown. The clues to the great mystery are all around us and deep within us.
Bryant H McGillMy Love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high:
It was begotten by despair
Upon Impossibility. [The Definition of Love]
Andrew MarvellAren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
Bart SimpsonWe are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning
ManiliusToday is my birthday and the crew surprised me with a cake. But this was not the best present I got from the team. That was the new car, which felt good on the track. I did a few runs in the afternoon and everything went well.
Giancarlo FisichellaShadow owes its birth to light.
John GayI will be joining the campaign with a song in my heart, with a spring in my step [on the birth of his first child]
Charles KennedyYesterday at The Oval had to be the most thrilling moment of my life... perhaps after the birth of my children. [on England Ashes win 2005]
Gladstone SmallHome is one's birthplace, ratified by memory. [an interesting quote indeed, Mr Grunwald]
Henry GrunwaldEven though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie KennedyEven at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
Robert BoltMy best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
Joan RiversThe cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia CooperTo hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich FrommHe has been in the foetal position since birth and hasn't changed much since then.
AnonymousThe lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.
William Of NormandyIt [giving birth] was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole AppletonFor my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Steven WrightWhen real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too
Fulke GrevilleThere are but three events in a man's life: birth, life, and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Jean De La BruyereThe 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
Avery BrundageHappy birthday to you. (Title of song 1935)
Pattie S HillVulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.
Czeslaw Milosz
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