Birth Quotes - Page 10

• We are African in origin and American in birth.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

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• Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Real, Pregnancy, Giving

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• The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

  Patty Murray

  Fda, Abortion, Drug

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• Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

  Hesiod

  Children, Grief, Heart

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• Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Men, Civilization

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Around the Red Lamp: Medical Life As It Used to Be”, p.47, Fireship Press

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• For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Age, Sickness

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• Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Women, Giving, Society

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• Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.

  Javad Alizadeh

  Two, Numbers, Our Lives

  "Humor & Caricature magazine". October 1995.

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• For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Men, Crime, Born

  "Life Is a Dream". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1635.

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• Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

  Stewart Edward White

  Mystery, Continuation

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• Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

  David Gemmell

  Struggle, Law, Agony

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• Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Nuts, Piano

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• I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.

  Richard Clayderman

  Couple, Block, War

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• I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fighting, Issues, Equal Pay

  "Elizabeth Warren-Scott Brown Debate: Candidates Face Off In Springfield" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Courage, Taken, Worship

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.176

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• There are of course economic advantages to having Turkey as a member of the European club. It's a developing country with a large, reasonably well-trained labor force at a time when the European birth rate is dropping at a catastrophic rate and Europe is graying. It offers opportunities for greater trade and investment to the benefit of both Turkey and Europe.

  Andrew Mango

  Country, Opportunity, Investment

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• Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Long, Bird

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 157

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• The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

  Adrian Rogers

  Goodness, Form, Substitutes

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2013). “Unveiling the End Times in Our Time: The Triumph of the Lamb in Revelation”, p.243, B&H Publishing Group

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• Check your spiritual birth certificate, you were made in the mighty image of God.

  Joel Osteen

  Spiritual, Checks, Certificates

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• If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital.

  Marsden Wagner

  Want, Hell, Best Things

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• The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Government, Survival

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Filled Up, Plot

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.179

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