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 ~
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
~By Denis Waitley ~
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.
~By Chris Brown ~
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
~By Meryl Streep ~
I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
~By Julie Andrews ~
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 ~
I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.
~By Jayson Williams ~
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.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
~By Sophocles ~
I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
~By Walter Cronkite ~
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
~By Stendhal ~
On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
~By Nathan Deal ~
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
~By Tertullian ~
Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.
~By Lawrence Tierney ~
I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.
~By Pete Rose ~
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
~By Hesiod ~
It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.
~By Susan Collins ~
I was famous from birth.
~By Peter Fonda ~
My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
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 crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
~By Isla Fisher ~
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
~By Roger Moore ~
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
~By Karl Kraus ~
For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.
~By Len G. Murray ~
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
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 ~
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.
~By King Hussein I ~
Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
~By Bill Maher ~
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
~By Bruce Willis ~
Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
~By Wilford Brimley ~
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
~By Ellis Peters ~
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
~By Joseph Hall ~
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 ~
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
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 ~
Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
~By Otto Rank ~
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
~By Manfred Eigen ~
If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?
~By Jim Rogers ~
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 ~
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 ~
If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
~By John Aubrey ~
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
~By Charles Lamb ~
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 ~
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
~By Georg Brandes ~
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 ~
One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
~By Robert Neelly Bellah ~
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
~By Stephen Fry ~
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
~By Bodhidharma ~
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
~By John Glenn ~
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 ~
I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
~By Kate Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
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 ~
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
~By Jack Schmitt ~
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 ~
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 ~
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
~By Cesare Lombroso ~
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 ~
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 ~
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By William Wordsworth ~
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 ~
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
~By Douglas Horton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We are African in origin and American in birth.
~By Timothy Thomas Fortune ~
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.
~By John Linder ~
The whole world is a man's birthplace.
~By Caecilius Statius ~
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
~By E. M. Forster ~
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
~By Germaine Greer ~
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
~By Roseanne Barr Arnold ~
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
~By W. H. Davies ~
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 ~
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
~By Henry Anatole Grunwald ~
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 ~
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 ~
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
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