Birth Quotes

"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary."

"Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence."

"I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at."

"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough."

"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."

"It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination."

"a new birth of freedom."

"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved"

"Impulses of deeper birth have come to him in solitude."

"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

"All things have second birth;The earthquake is not satisfied at once."

"People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."

"I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."

"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."