Birth Quotes - Page 11

• It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Years, One Day, Contemplation

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• Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

  Alistair Cooke

  Christmas, Christian, Country

  Alistair Cooke (2007). “Letter from America, 1946-2004”, p.131, Knopf

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• Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

  Lewis Mumford

  Growth, Immortality, Renewal

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

  Dogen

  Compassion, Evil, Worry

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

  Ovid

  Ancestry

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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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• What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Grief, Suffering

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• They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.

  William Cowper

  Judging, Poetic, Known

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.113

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• Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Silence, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.353

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• You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

  William Stafford

  Purpose, World, Whole

  William Stafford, “Assurance”

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• Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

  Edmund Burke

  Unjust, Ancestry, Preference

  "Reflections on the Revolution in France". Political pamphlet by Edmund Burke, November 1790.

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• I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Feet, My Birthday, Three

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• A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Wings, Goal, Heaven

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

  Abraham Maslow

  Often Is, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

  Camille Paglia

  Feminism, Pills, Birth Control

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.38, Vintage

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• The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

  Dogen

  Sky, Enlightenment, Painting

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