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

• 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
  • Birth
  • Be Proud

• Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

  

  John Calvin
  • Wisdom
  • Birth
  • Knowledge Of God

• True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Heaven
  • Birth
  • True Poetry

• If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Discipline

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

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

  

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