If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'
~By Luke Scott ~
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
~By John Travolta ~
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
~By Robert Casey ~
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
~By Bodhidharma ~
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Birth was the death of him.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
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 ~
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 ~
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
~By Sophia Loren ~
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 ~
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
~By Otto Rank ~
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
~By Peggy Noonan ~
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
~By Charles Eastman ~
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
~By John Milton ~
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 ~
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
~By Wallace Shawn ~
The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.
~By Patty Murray ~
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 ~
Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
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 ~
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
~By Roseanne Barr Arnold ~
From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.
~By Rex Hunt ~
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
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 ~
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 ~
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
~By Ethan Suplee ~
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
~By Isaac Hayes ~
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
~By Sydney Brenner ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.
~By Brittany Snow ~
You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.
~By Jennifer Dunn ~
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 ~
I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.
~By Lauren Holly ~
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
~By Gene Tierney ~
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
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 ~
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
~By Tertullian ~
My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
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 ~
The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
~By Robin Gibb ~
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
~By Manfred Eigen ~
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
~By Albert Einstein ~
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
~By Mary Antin ~
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
~By Adam Schiff ~
I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.
~By Susan Boyle ~
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?
~By Randy Johnson ~
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
~By Guru Nanak ~
Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.
~By O. J. Simpson ~
You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.
~By Cybill Shepherd ~
When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.
~By Marvin Harris ~
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
~By Thomas Babington ~
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
~By Leon Askin ~
We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.
~By Lance Burton ~
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
~By Willie Dixon ~
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
~By Dale Dauten ~
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
~By Carol Burnett ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
~By Ayn Rand ~
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
~By Sam Levenson ~
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
~By G. Stanley Hall ~
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
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 ~
I was famous from birth.
~By Peter Fonda ~
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
~By Mary Antin ~
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
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 ~
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 ~
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
~By Dalai Lama ~
Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
~By John Pearson ~
Labor gives birth to ideas.
~By Jim Rohn ~
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've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.
~By Michele Bachmann ~
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
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 ~
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