As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
Salvatore Quasimodo

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
Leon Askin

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
Emily Prager

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.
Lionel Blue

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher Fry

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
Bryant H. McGill

Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
Roseanne Barr Arnold

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.
Leonard Orr

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
Willie Dixon

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
Phyllis Schlafly

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
Georg Brandes

Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
Bodhidharma

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
John Thorn

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.
Amy Grant

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Sophocles

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Aaron Hill

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
Douglas Horton