I 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 RudnerWe 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 WilderThe pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret MeadFrom 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 TuckerI 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 KennedyA name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
Thomas HoodLike 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 KoontzPoverty 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 RowlingThey 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 RandCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
Aaron HillEven 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 KennedyWhile man is growing, life is in decrease.
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb:
Our birth is nothing but our death begun
Edward YoungWith 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 DangerfieldThe appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
Cesare LombrosoThe 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
Avery BrundageI 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 RadcliffeBirth was the death of him.
Samuel BeckettHe has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HoraceI was so happy. I felt, I can do it. I did this by myself [on birth of fourth child]
Tana RamsayThere 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 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 TylerHow many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin FranklinAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe 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 CooperIt'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 WarnockMan'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 FrommHe has been in the foetal position since birth and hasn't changed much since then.
AnonymousHe 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 EarlOur birth is nothing but our death begun.
Edward YoungMy best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
Joan RiversIt 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 GribbinThere 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 ThurberMasterpieces 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 WoolfJoan Collins unfortunately can't be with us tonight. She's busy attending the birth of her next husband.
John ParrottA theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory
Albert EinsteinWhen real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too
Fulke GrevilleToday 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 YoungHappy birthday to you. (Title of song 1935)
Pattie S HillIt [giving birth] was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole AppletonYesterday 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 SmallTo 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 sometimes get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message - they hope it's my last.
Al NormanTo 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 McGillLife is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death
Desmond MorrisWhen I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.
Jackie VernonWe 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 FranklinPeople ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
George BurnsThe 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 JohnsonTruth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John MiltonI was famous from birth.
Peter Fonda
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