Birth Quotes - Page 39

• Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Echoes, Ignorant, Mind

  "Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston". As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 256-259, 1922.

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• To be rich be diligent; move on
  Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth;
  Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
  And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
  Rich are the diligent who can command
  Time--nature's stock.

  William Davenant

  Spring, Moving, Sloth

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• All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

  William Davenant

  Strong, Overcoming, Enough

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• Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Mean, Play, Accomplishment

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• Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Ideas, Mind, Irony

  "Journals and Papers". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1967.

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• The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?

  Sallust

  Stars, Father, Taken

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• You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  War, Ideas, Birth Rate

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• The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and men. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love - and that love is the very breath of life. No one would say, 'I will breathe only when I am with my family and friends; I won't breathe in front of my enemies.' Similarly, for those in whom motherhood has awakened, love and compassion for everyone are as much part of their being as breathing.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Attitude, Motherhood, Love Is

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “The Awakening Of Universal Motherhood: Geneva Speech”, p.59, M A Center

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• The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

  Margaret Sanger

  Issues, Light, Understanding

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• Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.

  Connie Zweig

  Life, Lying, Fate

  Connie Zweig, Steven Wolf (2009). “Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life”, p.314, Wellspring/Ballantine

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• The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.

  Anthony Brandt

  Powerful, Years, Ties

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• High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

  William Warburton

  Proud, Ancestry, Boast

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• When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

  Mavis Leno

  Father, Believe, Merit

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• In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

  Shari Arison

  Spiritual, Book, Order

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• Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.

  Thom Yorke

  Kids, Eye, Government

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• Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Unique, Privilege, World

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• One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness

  Robert McNamara

  Mean, Birth Rate, Population

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• Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

  Aristotle

  Men, Moments

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• Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.

  Shinzo Abe

  Change, Country, Thinking

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• We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Remember, Forget, Ifs

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• The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Light, Sun, Awareness

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Aug 25, 2015

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• Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Expression, Giving, Soul

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• Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.

  Andrew Schneider

  Life, Sex, Dirty

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• All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

  James K. Polk

  Rights, Citizens, Protection

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• The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Mother, Baby, Believe

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