Birth Quotes
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We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.
Gautama Buddha
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The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
Gautama Buddha
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Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.
William Shakespeare
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Samuel Beckett
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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
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
E. Stanley Jones
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
Manfred Eigen
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
F. Sionil Jose
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Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall
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I have been vain since birth.
Wallace Shawn
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The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.
Bill Vaughan
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Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.
Oswald Chambers
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It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. Davies
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
Nancy Gibbs