A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
Isaac Hayes

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
Roger Moore

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
Charles de Secondat

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
Andrei Platonov

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
Manfred Eigen

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Henri B. Stendhal

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
Egon Schiele

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
Bodhidharma

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
Algernon H. Blackwood

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Johnny Depp

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
Helen Dunmore

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
Julie Walters