Birth Quotes

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

Hope, Strength, Government

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

Death, Growth, Cease

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

Love, Hope, Small

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

Mother, Child, Gift

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

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

Person, Why, Involved

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

Give, Able, Star

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

Give, Star, Within

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Morning, Death

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

Life, Medical, Parents

Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn

Ideas, Labor, Gives

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

Car, Anyone, Whom

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

Life, May, Done

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm

Life, Important, Give

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

Nature, Death, Secret

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

Struggle, Woman, Giving

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

Death, Before, After

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Free, Earth, Weight

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm

Hope, Moment, Become

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster

Life, Love, Food

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

Control, Year, Boy

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

Death, Different, Thought

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

Work, Play, Creative

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

Life, Trying, Whole

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Steven Biko

Human, Black, Him

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

Experience, Act, Anxiety

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
Denis Waitley

Success, Attitude, Winner

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature, Good, Seems

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
Donald Trump

Live, Same, Stretch

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Accident, Thousand, Beethoven

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