Plutarch Quotes

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

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• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Teen

• We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Years
  • Ancestors

• My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Birth

• Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Birth

• Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Saying
  • Birth
  • Punishment

• I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Book
  • Hand
  • Baby

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

  

  Sallust
  • Light
  • Powerful
  • Ancestors

• Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Way
  • Birth
  • Gender

• It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Birth
  • Lovely
  • Rainbow

• Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Trying
  • Moon
  • Joke

• There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

  

  John Travolta
  • Pain
  • Emotion
  • Birth

• Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Death
  • Movies

• Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Work
  • Long
  • May

• The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Guilty
  • Grace

• He would not bring this case, at what is probably the end of his career, unless it was a case with great merit.

  

  Lloyd Doggett
  • Great
  • Career
  • Case

• If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Birth

• All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wish
  • Happiness
  • Compassion

• I have never gotten into the label thing.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Labels

• For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • House

• Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

  

  Plutarch
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