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- 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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- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 500, our policy is 12 weeks of fully paid leave for all parents in the U.S. Parents can choose to take this leave consecutively or spread it out through the first 12 months after birth.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.
- Playful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a Brewers fan since birth.
- Planned
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of auditions in my life, so it's not unusual that I went in for 'Glee.' What was unusual is that it was a week, exactly, after I had given birth.
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