I 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 RadcliffeHow many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin FranklinIt 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 BruyereHome 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 LeoniHe has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HoracePoverty 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 RowlingCrabs do not give birth to a bird.
AnonymousOur birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul RichterShadow owes its birth to light.
John GayAll 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 RichterTo 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 FrommIt is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen GlasgowHe has been in the foetal position since birth and hasn't changed much since then.
AnonymousJoan Collins unfortunately can't be with us tonight. She's busy attending the birth of her next husband.
John ParrottWhen real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too
Fulke GrevilleWhile man is growing, life is in decrease.
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb:
Our birth is nothing but our death begun
Edward YoungThere 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 ThurberA name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
Thomas HoodCustom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth
Aaron HillA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma BombeckIt'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 WarnockMaybe it's my birthday, I honestly don't know. I'm 58? There's not much I need - I have plenty of socks
Arsene WengerCalled 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 BonaparteI sometimes get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message - they hope it's my last.
Al NormanDeath and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
Margaret MitchellGiving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol BurnettMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltaireIt [giving birth] was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole AppletonBirth 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 GandhiTo 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 McGillYesterday 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 SmallWe are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning
ManiliusThere 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 BruyereThere is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
George SantayanaHe 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 EarlA 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 LilloAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerSome decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite
Edmund BurkeWith 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 DangerfieldLike 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 KoontzMy 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 RiversEven at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
Robert BoltMy 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 GreenYou 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 HumphreysI 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 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 GrizzardAren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
Bart SimpsonI was so happy. I felt, I can do it. I did this by myself [on birth of fourth child]
Tana RamsayOf 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 Brierly
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