Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
Steve Jobs

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus Aurelius

Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
Rodney Dangerfield

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung

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

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck

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

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Soren Kierkegaard

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Chuck Palahniuk

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.
Ivan Illich

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot