Quotes tagged ‘Birth’

(46 total)

“The two most important days in your life are the way you are born and the day you find out why.”

“A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.”

“"But there is another essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck – absolute and total luck. When were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. They were given to us. When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be…”

— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu

“People are born, they grow old, and then they die. That’s the world we live in. There’s no magic, no mysticism, no immortality. There is nothing that defies rational thought. It’s not possible. I’m not a believer, I can’t be. But how can I deny what’s right in front of me? Someone who never grows ol…”

— Sean Reycraft, Gabrielle G. Stanton, Elena Gilbert, Nina Dobrev, imdb.com

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it”

— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com

“For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new...”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attrib…”

— Desmond Tutu, en.wikiquote.org

“But good ol'Uncle James, he had a heart. He talked her into it. It was Uncle James who told me about the night I was born. Driving Dorothy to the hospital, his raggedy old car didn't have any brakes. He had to ride around and around in circles until the car slowed down. Hey, that could be the story…”

— Etta James, amazon.com

“But whose child was I? The question was there when I was born. It's still there. The question haunts me, worries me, troubles my sleep. You wouldn't think it would matter after all this time, but it does. Something deep inside me needs to know.”

— Etta James, amazon.com

“What do you get when you mix LSD and birth control? A trip without the kids!”

— WarMachine79, reddit.com

“My doctor asked me what I am using for birth control. I told him my personality. It's 100% effective.”

— tacollama82, reddit.com

“Most people don't realize that the slaughter plant is much gentler than nature. Animals in the wild die from starvation, predators, or exposure. If I had a choice, I would rather go through a slaughter system than have my guts ripped out by coyotes or lions while I was still conscious. Unfortunately…”

— Temple Grandin, amazon.com

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”

— Jacques Cousteau, en.wikiquote.org

“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”

— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com

“In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death.”

— Gore Vidal, amazon.com

“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical sw…”

— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com

“at birth our eyes are sealed and a cypher set upon the heart for all we cannot see or know the colour, depth, and loveliness of the soul”

— Sakura Rain, twitter.com

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, amazon.com

“I realised last night that the feeling I was chasing during my pot smoking years, was the feeling I now get holding my newborn son.”

— J.C, web.archive.org

“Fellows like Willie Stark are born outside of luck, good or bad, and luck, which is what about makes you and me what we are, doesn't have anything to do with them, for they are what they are from the time they first kick in the womb until they end. And if that is the case, then their life history is…”

— Robert Penn Warren, amazon.com