Birth Quotes

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

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.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

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.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.