We are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning
ManiliusWe 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 FranklinBirth 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 GandhiFor my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Steven WrightThe 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 GrizzardOur birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul RichterMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltaireThe 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 NormandyOf 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 BrierlyI sometimes get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message - they hope it's my last.
Al NormanA theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory
Albert EinsteinEvery aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn RandI 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 RadcliffeSince giving birth to their daughter: I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder.
Tea LeoniDeath and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
Margaret MitchellShadow owes its birth to light.
John GayHe has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HoraceThis 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.
BuddhaLife is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death
Desmond MorrisMy 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 RiversI 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 KennedyIt 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'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
Darryl DawkinsYou 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 HumphreysEven at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
Robert BoltThe 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
Avery BrundageThere is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
George SantayanaI was so happy. I felt, I can do it. I did this by myself [on birth of fourth child]
Tana RamsayMaybe it's my birthday, I honestly don't know. I'm 58? There's not much I need - I have plenty of socks
Arsene WengerI 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 RudnerAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerFrom birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash
Sophie TuckerA 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 LilloMasterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia WoolfA name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
Thomas HoodAren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
Bart SimpsonTruth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John MiltonToday 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 FisichellaIt'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 AzariaDeath borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave
Joseph HallTo 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 McGillThere 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 ThurberSome decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite
Edmund BurkeEven 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 KennedyThe 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 JohnsonHow many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin FranklinThe 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 CooperCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
Aaron HillBirth was the death of him.
Samuel BeckettI 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 Tyler
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