- Carry
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great-grandfather was the last ruler of the Choctaw Nation, and from birth, I was taught that my role was to restore the power and the glory to my bloodline.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
- Dairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids, since birth, have been dairy- and gluten-free.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020