- I Am
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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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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.
- Legitimate
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- Nov 07, 2020
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.
- Enlarging
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.
- Owes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shadow owes its birth to light.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020