Birth Quotes - Page 29

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  Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

  Margaret Sanger

  Women, Goal, Important

  "Morality and Birth Control". "Birth Control Review", (pp. 11, 14), February-March 1918.

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• It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

  Augustine Birrell

  Ideas, Action, Great Idea

  Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

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• One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to recognize that death is no more extraordinary than birth. When they say it's the end of everything they don't seem to recognize that we came from somewhere and it would be very, very strange indeed to suppose that we're not going somewhere.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Would Be, Looks

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?

  Dogen

  Spiritual, School, Buddhism

  "Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist". Book by Hee-jin Kim, 2004.

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• The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.

  James G. Frazer

  Past, Iron, Savages

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• In my case, that number is 45. And given that I was born on December 13, 1945 my conception, gestation, and birth all occurred within that year that number has been with me, literally, for all my life, to date. The number 45 keeps on popping up as I go about the business of getting elected you guessed it as the forty-fifth president of the United States of America.

  Herman Cain

  Years, Numbers, America

  Herman Cain (2011). “This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!

  Leonid Andreyev

  Strong, Rain, Heart

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• The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.

  Theodor Adorno

  Blessing, Facts, Doe

  Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2002). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.9, Stanford University Press

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• Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Skills, Joy

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.75

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• The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

  Bette Midler

  Giving, Virgins, Stable

  "Mud will be Flung Tonight". Live album by Bette Midler, 1985.

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• Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

  Stephen Hawking

  Modern, Responsible, Single Person

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.155, Random House

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• [In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."] If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: "Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 [and] 1/16 is born." Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 [and] 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.

  Charles Babbage

  Believe, Men, Long

  New Scientist (p. 1428), December 4, 1958.

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• We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.

  Fred Hoyle

  Differences, Long, Today

  "Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle (p. 15), 1978.

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• How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love, and how it seemed the reason for all things, the intimacy of my wondering, the illumination that to an adolescent was the cause for life around me, the reason why the unhappy people I knew did not kill themselves?

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Stupid, Illumination, People

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser p. 222, 1949.

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• Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the reward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent.

  James Ellis

  Home, Humble, Men

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• Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.

  John Calvin

  Children, Differences, Noble

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.57, Baker Books

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• When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women. When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.

  Warren Farrell

  Caring, Europe, Fda

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Divorce, Parent

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

  Max Ernst

  Artist, Development, Phases

  Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

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• Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Iran, Overcoming

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• Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

  William Empson

  Men, Sea, Iron

  William Empson (1984). “Collected poems”, Chatto & Windus

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• Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.

  Sarada Devi

  Names, Mind, Suffering

  "Thus Spake the Holy Mother" by Sarada Devi, (pp. 72-73), 1985.

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• In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.

  Francis Parkman

  Character, Race, Ambitious

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.286, Library of America

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• I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.

  Joe Haldeman

  Faces, Quiet, Eternity

  Joe Haldeman (2006). “A Separate War and Other Stories”, p.134, Penguin

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• Have you ever had a big idea or dream - something you wanted so bad ... but you were too scared to make it happen, or maybe you didn't really believe it could? Think of how often you've had someone you looked up to or viewed as successful - shoot one of your suggestions full of holes. Ideas and babies have a lot in common - they require a lot of nourishment to survive. A new idea, regardless of its size, may not be able to withstand a beating when you first give it birth.

  Bob Proctor

  Dream, Baby, Believe

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 04, 2012

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