While man is growing, life is in decrease.
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb:
Our birth is nothing but our death begun
Edward YoungMy 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 MarvellThe 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 GrizzardVulgarized 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 MiloszTo 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 FrommWashington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
Alistair CookeWith 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 DangerfieldShadow owes its birth to light.
John GayA 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 LilloCrabs do not give birth to a bird.
AnonymousEven 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 KennedyLike all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean KoontzAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerI sometimes get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message - they hope it's my last.
Al NormanGiving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol BurnettWe are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning
ManiliusI never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.
Rita RudnerThe 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
Avery BrundageIt's seven years today, my anniversary, and it was my birthday yesterday - it's been a great weekend for me. I better be careful with the missus otherwise I will probably put her in the club! [Too much info, Warnock!]
Neil WarnockYou 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 HumphreysHe has been in the foetal position since birth and hasn't changed much since then.
AnonymousIt 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 GribbinIt's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs
Hank AzariaCalled to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me
Napoleon BonaparteMy 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 RiversHe will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted [on fighting Khan on 8th Dec, his birthday]
Graham EarlDeath and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
Margaret MitchellMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltaireSince giving birth to their daughter: I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder.
Tea LeoniHome is one's birthplace, ratified by memory. [an interesting quote indeed, Mr Grunwald]
Henry GrunwaldDeath borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave
Joseph HallPoverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.
J K RowlingMaybe it's my birthday, I honestly don't know. I'm 58? There's not much I need - I have plenty of socks
Arsene WengerWhen real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too
Fulke GrevilleThe return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel JohnsonI'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
Darryl DawkinsWhen I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.
Jackie VernonIt is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen GlasgowOf course Michael Vaughan should attend the birth of his first child.
It's something, after all, that he'll only experience 2,3 maybe 4 times in his life.
Stephen BrierlyIt [giving birth] was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole AppletonEven at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
Robert BoltCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
Aaron HillIt was like having
an 8 month hangover! [when about to give birth]
Debra StephensonTo 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 McGillWe 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 FranklinWe 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 WilderA theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory
Albert EinsteinA name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
Thomas HoodI was so happy. I felt, I can do it. I did this by myself [on birth of fourth child]
Tana RamsayHe has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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