- Religion
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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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- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form of government that counts participation and transparency as its cornerstones and uses technology as its guide. The digital revolution is allowing democracy to recall its foundations and evolution is modernizing and reinforcing our fundamental values.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best moment of 2011 would definitely be the birth of my daughter six weeks ago, on September 25.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky by birth.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020