It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
~By W. H. Davies ~
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
~By Bernard Barton ~
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
~By Cesar Romero ~
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
~By Algernon H. Blackwood ~
As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
~By Julie Walters ~
Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
~By Steven Wright ~
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 ~
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
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 ~
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
~By Carol Burnett ~
I hate birthdays.
~By Zane Grey ~
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
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 ~
Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
~By John Clayton ~
On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.
~By Eva Herzigova ~
The whole world is a man's birthplace.
~By Caecilius Statius ~
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
~By Catherine Bell ~
I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.
~By Marian McPartland ~
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
~By Daniel P. Moynihan ~
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
~By John Thorn ~
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
~By James Larkin ~
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
~By John Keats ~
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
~By Heinz R. Pagels ~
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
~By David Friedrich Strauss ~
With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
~By Brooke Shields ~
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
~By Mahmoud Abbas ~
Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.
~By Lionel Blue ~
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
~By Arthur Keith ~
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
~By Arlo Guthrie ~
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 ~
I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.
~By Rod Taylor ~
I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.
~By Leonard Orr ~
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
~By Jock Sturges ~
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.
~By Marc Racicot ~
The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.
~By Ernest Istook ~
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
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 ~
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
~By Richard Whately ~
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
~By Joseph Hall ~
With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.
~By Thayer David ~
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
~By Horace ~
Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
~By Nicole Appleton ~
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
~By David Edward Jenkins ~
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
~By Sophocles ~
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.
~By Lauren Holly ~
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
~By Jose Marti ~
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
~By Ginger Baker ~
We're more effective than birth control pills.
~By Johnny Carson ~
Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
~By Joan Rivers ~
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.
~By Daniel Morgan ~
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 ~
Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
~By Wilford Brimley ~
There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.
~By Michael Richards ~
I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!
~By Tippi Hedren ~
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
~By Robert Lynd ~
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
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 ~
There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
~By William Cartwright ~
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 ~
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
~By Meryl Streep ~
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
~By John Glenn ~
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
~By Carl Jung ~
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
~By Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
We are African in origin and American in birth.
~By Timothy Thomas Fortune ~
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
~By Georg Brandes ~
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 ~
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
~By Robert Neelly Bellah ~
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
~By Jean Paul ~
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
~By John Milton ~
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.
~By John Fiske ~
I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
~By Demetri Martin ~
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
~By Roseanne Barr Arnold ~
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