- Nov 07, 2020
Birth Quotes
Reflections on beginnings, from the personal to the poetic.
Birth shows up here as both a literal event and a metaphor, covering everything from a person's early temperament to poetic imagery of color and origin. One line even weighs a well-known theological question about possibility and power. Explore the theme further in Beginning quotes.
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- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got married to Doug in 2005. I knew that we wanted to delay having children for a while, and I had tried pretty much every hormonal birth control method under the sun.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know the risks of birth control, and yet we continue to pump it into our system as if we have no choice.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
- Promise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Virgin Birth is possible if there is a God. An Omnipotent Being who can do all things and yet cannot do some things is hardly worth our attack or defence.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandma used to call my mother 'Tuppence' as a term of affection, but she was worried when my parents actually put it on my birth certificate. She thought I might get bullied.
- Nov 07, 2020
I gave birth to our daughter Coco in Pisa, and it was a wonderful time in all our lives.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020