Birth was the death of him.
Samuel BeckettSome decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite
Edmund BurkeOur birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul RichterTruth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John MiltonLike 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 still no cure for the common birthday.
John GlennI'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
Darryl DawkinsThe 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
Avery BrundageEven 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 KennedyThey 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 RandJoan 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 EinsteinYesterday 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 FrommThis 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.
BuddhaHe 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 EarlI 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 TylerTo 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 McGillWe are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning
ManiliusIt'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 WarnockCalled 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 BonaparteAren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
Bart SimpsonThe 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 GrizzardThere 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 BruyereEvery aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn RandI sometimes get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message - they hope it's my last.
Al NormanHe has been in the foetal position since birth and hasn't changed much since then.
AnonymousA name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
Thomas HoodWhen I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.
Jackie VernonWhen real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too
Fulke GrevilleDeath borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave
Joseph HallDeath and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
Margaret MitchellFor my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Steven WrightIt [giving birth] was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole AppletonThere is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
George SantayanaWe 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 WilderOur birth is nothing but our death begun.
Edward YoungWashington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
Alistair CookeEven at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
Robert BoltHow many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin FranklinVulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.
Czeslaw MiloszIt 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 BruyereHappy birthday to you. (Title of song 1935)
Pattie S HillI 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 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 FranklinHelp us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
Mary SartonMasterpieces 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 WoolfWith 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 DangerfieldWhile man is growing, life is in decrease.
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb:
Our birth is nothing but our death begun
Edward YoungCrabs do not give birth to a bird.
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