The 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 MeadThe appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
Cesare LombrosoHow 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 SchopenhauerHome is one's birthplace, ratified by memory. [an interesting quote indeed, Mr Grunwald]
Henry GrunwaldSince giving birth to their daughter: I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder.
Tea LeoniEvery aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn RandI was so happy. I felt, I can do it. I did this by myself [on birth of fourth child]
Tana RamsayA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma BombeckWhen I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.
Jackie VernonBirth 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 GandhiThis 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.
BuddhaI 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 TylerIt is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen GlasgowWe are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning
ManiliusFor my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Steven WrightA name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
Thomas HoodWashington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
Alistair CookeThey 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 RandMy 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 RiversThere 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 BruyereLike 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 KoontzEven at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
Robert BoltWe 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 BurnsA 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 LilloA theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory
Albert EinsteinHe has been in the foetal position since birth and hasn't changed much since then.
AnonymousThere is still no cure for the common birthday.
John GlennEven 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 KennedyTo 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 FrommMasterpieces 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 WoolfSome decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite
Edmund BurkeThe 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
Avery BrundageWe 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 WilderCrabs do not give birth to a bird.
AnonymousThere 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 ThurberThe 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 BrierlyIt'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 AzariaToday 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 YoungHe has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HoraceI 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 KennedyFrom 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 TuckerBirth was the death of him.
Samuel BeckettDeath and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
Margaret MitchellMy name is Brian Green by birth. Austin was made up by my parents when I was nine, because there was another Brian Green in the Screen Actors Guild.
Brian Austin GreenOur birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul RichterGiving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol BurnettNever lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck
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