Birth Quotes - Page 31

• An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

  Gloria Trevi

  Children, Giving, Albums

  "Gloria Trevi Launches New Self-Titled Album" by Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. March 22, 2011.

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• You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn't really understand how birth certificates were kept in the state of Hawaii, and now, I think that it's been pretty much disclosed that they used to have a long form and now they don't have a long form. Arizona used to have a long form, we now have a short form.

  Jan Brewer

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Interview with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 1, 2010.

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• I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Country, Dark, Leaving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.

  Paul Bloom

  Gay, People, Abortion

  "To urgh is human" by Paul Bloom, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2004.

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• I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

  Karen Essex

  Children, Men, Giving

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• Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

  Mark Mathabane

  Land, Dignity

  Mark Mathabane (1997). “Kaffir Boy: And Related Readings”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible.

  Virginie Despentes

  Children, School, Kids

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• In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

  Ryan Lewis

  Mom, Blood, Hiv

  "A Message from Ryan Lewis". www.indiegogo.com.

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• Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Blood, Ireland And The Irish, Language

  "Irishness". New Statesman, January 17, 1959.

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• The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Blood, Sick

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• Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sex, Genius, Limits

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• I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

  Saina Nehwal

  Disappointment, Grandmother, Years

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• As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Differences, Immigration, Wages

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• Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

  Emily Oster

  Doulas, Helping, Planning

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• Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

  Emily Oster

  Talking, Polarizing

  "'Expecting Better' pregnancy advice" by Emily Oster, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.

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• There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

  Emily Oster

  Birth Defects, Risk, Gardening

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• . . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.

  Susan Piver

  Letting Go, Mother, Giving

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• If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

  Frank Abagnale

  Identity, Information, Way

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• Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophical, Giving, Use

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• We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams.

  Christine Caine

  Dream, Needs, Rooms

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• Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Mother, Children, Curves

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. August 3, 2004.

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• Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?

  Caroline Paul

  Running, Baby, Morning

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• We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

  Mary Calderone

  Baby, Epidemics, Polio Vaccine

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• Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.

  Isaac Asimov

  Hate, Fighting, Intelligent

  Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

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• Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

  Anatole France

  Blood, Giving, Dying

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