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 RichterA name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
Thomas HoodWe are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning
ManiliusPoverty 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 RowlingIt [giving birth] was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole AppletonIt 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 BruyereI cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Liv TylerCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
Aaron HillPeople ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
George BurnsTo 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 FrommI was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth]
Paula RadcliffeHome is one's birthplace, ratified by memory. [an interesting quote indeed, Mr Grunwald]
Henry GrunwaldThe 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
Avery BrundageThey proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom?
Ayn RandGiving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol BurnettWhen I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.
Jackie VernonDeath borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave
Joseph HallBirth 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 GandhiThe 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 JohnsonThey kept trying to sponge down my face with cool water and all I could do was shout 'be careful of my hair!' because I didn't want it to go all curly (on giving birth to son Harvey)
JordanThis existence of ours is as transient as Autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
BuddhaAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerHe has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HoraceToday 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 FisichellaA theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory
Albert EinsteinMy 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 RiversWe 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 WilderToday we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent.
Michael YoungWe 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 FranklinNever lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma BombeckBirth was the death of him.
Samuel BeckettHe 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 EarlLike 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 KoontzThere 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 ThurberCrabs do not give birth to a bird.
AnonymousOur birth is nothing but our death begun.
Edward YoungSince giving birth to their daughter: I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder.
Tea LeoniMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltaireMaybe it's my birthday, I honestly don't know. I'm 58? There's not much I need - I have plenty of socks
Arsene WengerMy best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
Joan RiversOf 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 BrierlyThere is still no cure for the common birthday.
John GlennJoan Collins unfortunately can't be with us tonight. She's busy attending the birth of her next husband.
John ParrottThe 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 CooperDeath and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
Margaret MitchellI was so happy. I felt, I can do it. I did this by myself [on birth of fourth child]
Tana RamsayAren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
Bart SimpsonIt 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 GribbinMan's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. (Man for Himself)
Erich FrommFor my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Steven Wright
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