Birth Quotes - Page 21

Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can be held within a strictly limited agency of duties and powers can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.

I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

I've learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.