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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

Voltaire

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

ALICE CARY: _Nobility._

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Eda LeShan

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death -- ourselves.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Stendhal

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Erich Fromm

Man's main task is to give birth to himself.

Bhagavad Gita

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Buddha

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

Rodney Dangerfield

One year they wanted to make me poster boy.. for birth control.

Erich Fromm

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.

Anna Quindlen

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Eric Hoffer

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Jim	Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

GRAY: _Elegy, The Epitaph._

Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Bhagavad Gita

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Erich Fromm

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.

John Johnson

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

Nancy Friday

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

Wendy Wasserstein

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.

LONGFELLOW: _Tales of a Wayside Inn. Emma and Eginhard._

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.

Virginia

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Hugh Elliott

Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.

George Bernard Shaw

(Recalling the atmosphere at what he called the ceremonial birth of South African democracy.)

WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality,_ St. 2.

The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

Kareem Abdul-Jabar

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. vii., Line 263.

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!

Alfred North Whitehead

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Erich Fromm

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Norman Cousins

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life.

GEORGE MACDONALD: _Songs of the Spring Days._

A gentle wind of western birth, From some far summer sea, Wakes daisies in the wintry earth.

WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality,_ St. 5.

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.

YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 717.

While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

HENRY VAUGHAN: _Religion._

Religion is a spring, That from some secret, golden mine Derives her birth, and thence doth bring Cordials in every drop, and wine.

Anthony Brandt

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

John Berger

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. vii., Canto vii., St. 41.

And after him came next the chill December: Yet he, through merry feasting which he made And great bonfires, did not the cold remember; His Saviour's birth his mind so much did glad.

Vaclav Havel

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...

GRAY: _Elegy, Epitaph._

Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

J. G. Ballard

The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

Jean de la Bruyere

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.

Thomas W. Higginson

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

George Santayana

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Friedrich von Schiller

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppress

Albert Einstein

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

I rely on my personality for birth control.

Condominiums are not effective birth control.

Learn from your parents' mistakes: use birth control.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

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.

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.

How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

'No Kidding' - a form of birth control''Normal' is just a cycle on your washing machine. --JPM

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Any proposition containing the word is creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

"My concealed carry permit is my birth certificate." - L. Neil Smith

"A family reunion is an effective form of birth control." - Heinlein

"Dear, you've lost you birth control pills," said Tom pregnantly.

"Bother," said Pooh as Kanga gave birth to a monster.

"Bother," said Pooh, as Kanga gave birth to a monster.

"Bother!" said Pooh, as Kanga gave birth to a monster.

"Bother!" said Pooh as Kanga gave birth to a monster.

"Someone's giving birth in the next tent." -- Tom Servo

"You are dilated to 10cm, you may now give birth." -- Worf

"Do you dare do battle with the nose of your birth?" The Tick

"Your birth was a curse on the whole of humanity." -Amanda Krueger

"Its a Mr. Death honey...he's here about an Expired Birth Certificate"

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

"What is this? Birth of a rhythm nation?" -- Tom Servo

"What is this? `Birth of a Rhythm Nation'?" -- Tom Servo

"What is this? `Birth of a Rhythm Nation'?" -- Tom Servo

"Gun Control" is a Crime. REVOLUTION is a BIRTH RIGHT!!

"You are fully dilated to 10 cm. You may now give birth."

"What about our five-dollar birth certificates?" - Beavis

"Straight But Not Narrow" The first from birth; the second learned.

"You do battle with the nose of your birth???" -The Tick

"It's a Mr. Death. He's come about an expired birth certificate."

"Sorry, my birth is a little too far back for me to remember."

"One end of the string is birth, the other is death." -- Sam

"What do you mean my Birth Certificate expired?"

...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.