Birth Quotes - Page 18

• A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

  Karl Marx

  Children, Yesterday, Blood

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.450, VM eBooks

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• The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Self, Imagination, Giving

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). “Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.156, Princeton University Press

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• A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too.

  Lucy Liu

  Children, People, Giving

  "Lucy Liu Talks 3 Needles". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. November 27, 2006.

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• In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.

  David Gelernter

  Children, School, Parent

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Giving, Able

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

  Eric Jensen

  Teenage, Years, Brain

  Eric Jensen (2005). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, p.11, ASCD

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• A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

  Horace

  Money, Men, Wife

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.365, Delphi Classics

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• I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.

  Yip Harburg

  Strong, Thinking, Feelings

  "Yip Harburg: Secular Songwriter" by Dan Barker in "Freethought Today", Volume, 22, No. 3, April 2005.

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• For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.

  Lucretius

  Men, Soul, Shade

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1898). “Lucretius On the Nature of Things”, p.8

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• Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

  Aeschylus

  Suffering, Glory, Stills

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.343

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• Congratulations to Chelsea Clinton. Over the weekend, she gave birth to a baby girl. The baby girl will not confirm or deny whether she's running in 2056.

  David Letterman

  Girl, Running, Baby

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• It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Poet, Score, Certificates

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.

  Aldo Leopold

  Brother, Ideas, Years

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.34, Library of America

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• We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

  Conrad Aiken

  Pain, Lying, Roots

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital births introduces risks or the home environment promotes problem-free labors.

  Henci Goer

  Home, Risk, May

  Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.334, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

  Sophocles

  Proud, Dies

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Adoption, Abortion, Atheism

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.

  Pamela Anderson

  Children, Moving, Kids

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• The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Sight, Blossoming, Sun

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1999). “The Complete Poems of Sarah Orne Jewett”, Ironweed PressInc

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• The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.

  Charles Wagner

  Men, Views, Justice

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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• As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

  Chinua Achebe

  Giving, Creative, Suffering

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.104, Heinemann

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• In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out.

  R. D. Laing

  Believe, Men, Light

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• Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Achievement, Brain, Mind

  Elliot W. Eisner (2005). “Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner”, p.212, Taylor & Francis

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• Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness?

  Ben Brantley

  Play, Giving, Looks

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• The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Country, Believe

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