Birth Quotes - Page 5

• It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

  James Joyce

  Art, Philosophy, History

  James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.658, eBookIt.com

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• The birth of my daughter, gave me life.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, My Daughter

  "Rebel reborn" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

  Gene Tierney

  Daughter, Mother, Feelings

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Robert Neelly Bellah (1985). “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

  Desmond Morris

  Life, Journey, Toys

  In 'Sunday Express' 3 November 1991

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• For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

  Plato

  Men, Giving, Honor

  Plato, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Alfred Edward Taylor (1985). “The banquet (also known as The symposium)”

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• A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

  Andrei Platonov

  War, Men, Given

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• Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Looking Forward, Preparing

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• We're more effective than birth control pills.

  Johnny Carson

  Pills, Birth Control, Comedy

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• Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Night, Firsts

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

  Smiley Blanton

  Children, Love Is, Giving

  Smiley Blanton (1956). “Love or perish”

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• Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Trying, Birth Life

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.264, Random House

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• Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, God, Desire

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 10, 2011

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• A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Reading, Book, Ideas

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

  Ani DiFranco

  Blessed, Want

  Song: Talk To Me Now, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Food, Sleep

  "Aspects of the Novel".

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• Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

  Douglas Horton

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

  Christopher Lasch

  Order, Moral, Progressive

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• The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

  Benito Mussolini

  Fate, Birth Rate, Empires

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• Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Years, Age, Youth

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Sibling, Believe

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• Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

  Nicole Appleton

  Tattoo, Mom, Motherhood

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• I would want them to really think about how amazing they are and how lucky they are to be a woman. And how powerful they are. And I'd tell them to love every day of it because it's the biggest miracle and a woman that's able to give birth is the most important, lucky, fortunate woman in the world.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Powerful, Pregnancy, Thinking

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• Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Death

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 9, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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  Man'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.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Birthday, Character

  Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

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