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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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- Credited
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- Nov 07, 2020
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have not betrayed Barca, and I'm surprised anyone would doubt my commitment to Barcelona, because I've been a fan since birth.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Middle-class families know education begins at birth.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to change the focus from celebrating sales at the mall to celebrating the significance of President Washington's birth to the birth of our nation.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.
- Emotional Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birth is such an emotional thing.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020