Birth Quotes - Page 10

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

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.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.