Birth Quotes - page 55

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. (Richard Dawkins)
The warm sun kissed the earth To consecrate thy birth, And from his close embrace Thy radiant face Sprang into sight, A blossoming delight. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we've developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship. View quote
Matt Taibbi
He was a soldier and he marched where he was ordered to march and he killed the king's enemies when he arrived. That was his job and the army was his home and he loved both even though he knew he would have to fight like a gutter-born bastard for every step of advancement that other men took for granted. And he knew too that he would never be prized for his birth or his wit or his wealth, but would only be reckoned as good as his last fight, but that thought made him smile. For Sharpe's last battle had been against the best soldier France had and Sharpe had drowned the bastard like a rat. Sharpe had won, Loup was dead, and it was over at last: Sharpe's battle. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
Whenever I hear of birth control, I always remember that I was the fifth. View quote
Clarence Darrow
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone. View quote
Wendy Wasserstein
All jealousy must be strangled in its birth. View quote
William Davenant
We have spent these last years disciplining anyone who disagrees with our line on divorce, on birth control, on being gay. While our planet was being destroyed, while inequality grew like a cancer. We worried whether it was alright to speak the Mass in Latin, whether girls should be allowed to be altar servers. We built walls around us, and all... View quote
Pope Francis
Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women. View quote
Robin Morgan
You've been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it's about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what's real. -Going Bovine. View quote
Libba Bray
At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage. (Tom Robbins)
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come. View quote
William Wordsworth
In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough. View quote
Will Rogers
Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
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. View quote
Dixie Lee Ray
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. View quote
Annie Besant
No. I renounce my ration card, my I.D., my birth certificate, voter's registration, passport, code number, countersign, credentials, safe conduct pass, insignia, tattoo, brand. View quote
Octavio Paz
Part of what I wanted to do with Baby Love was to suggest that not only are you giving birth to a baby, but also you can use the experience to give birth to a new sense of yourself. View quote
Rebecca Walker
I believe the principle fault of the majority of writers and artists is having neither the will nor the courage to break with their successes, failing to seek new paths and give birth to new ideas. View quote
Claude Debussy
From my birth I have aspired like the eagle but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed.... Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers. (Mary Shelley)
Again and again our foe, religion, has given birth to deeds sinful and unholy. View quote
Lucretius
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
‘... the world's cheapest small car, Tata's Nano, worth only $1500. This toy-like ill-fated vehicle, whose destiny it was to look as if it had been prematurely brought into the world, more foetus than car, and whose birth was near abortive and then indefinitely delayed, this car, when it finally took to the road, turned out to have an engine that at times exploded mysteriously. Until 2009, it was seen to be Bengal's quirky but irreplaceable mascot for development.' View quote
Amit Chaudhuri
I would want to make absolutely sure that he [President Obama] was born here before allowing him to be elected. And the birth certificate that he put up on that website, I don't know where he was born. But I do know that birth certificate isn't genuine. View quote
Christopher Monckton