Birth Quotes - Page 11

• There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

  Barack Obama

  Things In Life, Important, Certificates

  Barack Obama's Speech at White House Correspondents' Dinner, www.c-span.org. May 1, 2010.

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• The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Confused, Giving, Mammals

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• All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

  Aristotle

  Men, Excellence, Aristocracy

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• Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Needs, Given

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.38, Basic Books

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• I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Birth Rate, Poverty

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• Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mother, Path, Steps

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!

  Ernest Holmes

  Giving, Privilege, Limitless

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.113, Penguin

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• I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.

  Adyashanti

  Giving, Forever, Becoming

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• Each galaxy, star, or person is the temporary owner of particles that have passed through the births and deaths of entities across vast reaches of time and space. The particles that make us have traveled billions of years across the universe; long after we and our planet are gone, they will be a part of other worlds.

  Neil Shubin

  Stars, Years, Other Worlds

  Neil Shubin (2013). “The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body”, p.33, Vintage

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• If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

  Chris Rock

  School, Opposites, Abortion

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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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• 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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• What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Joy, And Love, Messages

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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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• 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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• 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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• I 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 Rudner

  Funny, Mother, Father

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• I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Taken, Responsibility, Giving

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• Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

  Ovid

  Ancestry

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• Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Mean, Issues, Dying

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• Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sorrow, Age, Disease

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• Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

  Gautama Buddha

  House, Painful, Builder

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