A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory
Albert EinsteinThe 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 CooperDeath borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave
Joseph HallThere is still no cure for the common birthday.
John GlennMy 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 RiversToday 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 YoungIt [giving birth] was easier than having a tattoo.
Nicole AppletonFor my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Steven WrightI 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 RadcliffeIt'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 FrommBirth 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 GandhiHe has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HoraceWith 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 DangerfieldHelp us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
Mary SartonWashington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
Alistair CookeThe 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 NormandyOur birth is nothing but our death begun.
Edward YoungBirth was the death of him.
Samuel BeckettHow many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin FranklinYesterday 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 SmallWhile man is growing, life is in decrease.
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb:
Our birth is nothing but our death begun
Edward YoungI 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 KennedyEven 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 JohnsonEvery aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn RandThey 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 RandIt is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen GlasgowThere 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 friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma BombeckHome 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 LeoniThey kept trying to sponge down my face with cool water and all I could do was shout 'be careful of my hair!' because I didn't want it to go all curly (on giving birth to son Harvey)
JordanOur birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul RichterWhen real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too
Fulke GrevilleThe appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
Cesare LombrosoDeath and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
Margaret MitchellAren'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 MiltonMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltaireGiving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol BurnettThis 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.
BuddhaIt was like having
an 8 month hangover! [when about to give birth]
Debra StephensonHe 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 EarlMasterpieces 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 HoodWe 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 WilderOn the birth of her 2nd son Owen. 'I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!'
Ricki LakeEven at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
Robert BoltOf 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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