I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
~By Diane von Furstenberg ~
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
~By Arlo Guthrie ~
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
~By Harold Pinter ~
The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.
~By Hal Lindsey ~
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
~By Ellis Peters ~
They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
We're more effective than birth control pills.
~By Johnny Carson ~
Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.
~By Freddy Fender ~
My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.
~By Joan Rivers ~
Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
~By Evel Knievel ~
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death: ourselves.
~By Eda J. Le Shan ~
All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
~By Egon Schiele ~
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
~By Robert Bolt ~
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
~By Otis Blackwell ~
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
~By James Thurber ~
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
~By David Horowitz ~
Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
~By Desmond Morris ~
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
~By Franz Kafka ~
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
~By Horace ~
Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.
~By Keith Thibodeaux ~
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.
~By Cybill Shepherd ~
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
~By Liv Tyler ~
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
~By Thomas W. Higginson ~
I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
~By Johnny Depp ~
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
~By Sam Levenson ~
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
~By Carol Burnett ~
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
~By Thomas Babington ~
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.
~By Jock Sturges ~
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
~By Jackson Browne ~
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
~By Charles Erwin Wilson ~
Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
~By Otto Rank ~
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
~By Christopher Fry ~
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
~By Yehudi Menuhin ~
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
~By Tom DeLay ~
I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.
~By Michael McKean ~
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
Every man should see the birth of his children.
~By Dennis Banks ~
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
~By John Travolta ~
I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.
~By Mark Strong ~
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.
~By John Britton ~
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
~By Amelia Barr ~
There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
~By Ellen Glasgow ~
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
Labor gives birth to ideas.
~By Jim Rohn ~
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.
~By Thomas Menino ~
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
~By Emily Prager ~
It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.
~By Julie Walters ~
I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.
~By Lauren Holly ~
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
~By Stendhal ~
At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
~By Harry Seidler ~
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
~By Norman Cousins ~
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
~By Bruce Willis ~
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
~By Hesiod ~
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
~By Ayn Rand ~
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
~By Nathan Deal ~
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
~By Art Buchwald ~
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.
~By Jennifer Dunn ~
Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.
~By Jerry Weller ~
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.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
~By May Sarton ~
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
~By Francis Bacon ~
One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
~By Jean Paul ~
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
~By William P. Leahy ~
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
~By Walter Lord ~
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
~By Jessica Lange ~
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
~By Sophia Loren ~
Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.
~By Leonard Orr ~
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