
“Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.”
Source: Shopaholic & Baby
“Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.”
Source: Shopaholic & Baby
"Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," lines 1-4, from Wine from These Grapes (1934)
“Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.”
Rien n'est plus lent que la véritable naissance d'un homme.
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), p. 258
Source: Sunset Gun: Poems
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Source: Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”
Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4 "Problems of Humanistic Ethics"
The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology (1968)
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973)
Lyrics
Talk To Me Now
Song lyrics
Variant: I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in-between.
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Quoted in Amnesty International's essay "From Prisoner to President – A Tribute"
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.”
“Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“The birth of the mind is the death of the senses”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
"Stairway to Heaven," Thinking in Pictures (1995), p. 202.
Source: Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
Context: Most people don't realize that the slaughter plant is much gentler than nature. Animals in the wild die from starvation, predators, or exposure. If I had a choice, I would rather go through a slaughter system than have my guts ripped out by coyotes or lions while I was still conscious. Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.
“After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”
“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
Depuis le jour de ma naissance, ma mort s'est mise en marche. Elle marche à ma rencontre, sans se presser.
"Postambule" in La Fin du Potomac (1939); later published in Collected Works Vol. 2 (1947)
“If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.”
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
Source: Invisible Monsters
As quoted in Michel Foucault (1991) by Didier Eribon, as translated by Betsy Wind, Harvard University Press, p. 282
Context: There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
As quoted in The Golden Ratio (2002) by Mario Livio
1962, Address at Independence Hall
Sens-plastique
On Hinduism (2000)
His confessional statements on his own experiences made in Kavitavali quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 49
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 556.
Original: (fr) On dirait que le végétal est l'ébauche, le canevas de l'animal, et que, pour former ce dernier, il n'a fallu que revêtir ce canevas d'un appareil d'organes extérieurs, propres à établir des relations. Il résulte de là que les fonctions de l'animal forment deux classes très-distinctes. Les unes se composent d'une succession habituelle d'assimilation et d'excrétion ; par elles il transforme sans cesse en sa propre substance les molécules des corps voisins, et rejette ensuite ces molécules, lorsqu'elles lui sont devenues hétérogènes. Il ne vit qu'en lui, par cette classe de fonctions ; par l'autre il existe hors de lui : il est l'habitant du monde, et non, comme le végétal, du lieu qui le vit naître. Il sent et aperçoit ce qui l'entoure, réfléchit ses sensations, se meut volontairement d'après leur influenc, et le plus souvent peut communiquer par la voix, ses désirs et ses craintes, ses plaisirs ou ses peines. J'appelle vie organique l'ensemble des fonctions de la première classe, parce que tous les êtres organisés, végétaux ou animaux, en jouissent à un degré plus ou moins marqué, et que la texture organique est la seule condition nécessaire à son exercice. Les fonctions réunies de la seconde classe forment la vie animale, ainsi nommée, parce qu'elle est l'attribut exclusif du règne animal. Recherches Physiologiques sur la Vie et la Mort (1800) Translation: [Russell, E. S., Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology, 1916, London, 28,
https://archive.org/details/formfunctioncont00russ/page/n5/mode/2up]
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Xavier Bichat / Quotes
Cardinal Dolan on the ‘Culture of Death’: ‘Isolated, Chic Left’ in Denial About Growing Pro-Life Support in America http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/26/cardinal-dolan-culture-death-isolated-chic-left-denial-growing-pro-life-support-america/ (January 26 2017)
A Message from the Governor
HuckPAC
2008-08-23
http://www.huckpac.com/?Fuseaction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=1848&CommentPage=5
2011-03-01
On Coalition Government (1945)
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1813/mar/01/mr-grattans-motion-for-a-committee-on in the House of Commons in favour of Catholic Emancipation (1 March 1813).
1810s
The Review and Herald (15 April 1880); also in Mind, Character, and Personality (1977), Vol. 2, p. 789
1960s, Family Planning - A Special and Urgent Concern (1966)
Master Speaks (1967) Part 7: Bible Interpretation http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/sm-mast/MSTRSP-7.htm (transcriptions of Q&A sessions in March-April 1965)
About Barack Obama's birth certificate. * Fox & Friends
Television
Fox News
2011-03-28
About Barack Obama's birth certificate. * Fox Goes Birther: Trump Tells Unquestioning Co-hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder...Whether Or Not <nowiki>[Obama]</nowiki> Was Born In This Country"
Media Matters for America
2011-03-28
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103280006
2011-03-30
2010s, 2011
“More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief issue in birth control.”
Editors of American Medicine in a review of Sanger's article "Why Not Birth Control Clinics in America?" published in Birth Control Review, May 1919
Misattributed
John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black (2011)
Statement by Liberal Party of Canada Leader Justin Trudeau on Christmas http://www.liberal.ca/statement-by-liberal-party-of-canada-leader-justin-trudeau-on-christmas/ (24 December 2014)
2014
1960s, The American Promise (1965)
“Human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.”
"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 286
Cloud Atlas (2004)
Shams Siraj Afif cited in Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 12
The Animals (1983)
"In the Name of the Bodleian"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
Pt. I, l. 360-363.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)