Birth Quotes

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.
Ernest Istook

Great, Positive, Democracy

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
Harri Holkeri

Education, Control, Give

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.
Michele Bachmann

Government, Single, Talk

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.
Melissa Leo

Difficult, Choice, Characters

There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.
Rodney Atkins

Mom, Mother, Book

When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.
Rodney Atkins

Life, Love, Mom

I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!
Rose McGowan

Home, History, Until

Within us - the heart of us, really - is a 'ground' that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring.
Guy Finley

Heart, Feelings, May

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
Goldwin Smith

Great, History, Study

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.
Gwen Moore

Work, Good, Health

Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.
Ashlee Simpson

Best, Amazing, Real

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.
Jan Schakowsky

History, Important, Democracy

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Far, Election, Security

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Government, Nothing, Words

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

Through, Said, Again

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

Life, End, Fame

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
John Travolta

Pain, Emotions, Goes

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
Rebecca Harding Davis

Death, May, After

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.
Dora Russell

Women, Control, Poor

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
George J. Mitchell

Mother, Father, Parents

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

Time, Parents, Story

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
Conrad Veidt

Home, Jealousy, Mother

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
Mahmoud Abbas

Vision, State, President

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
John Pearson

Life, Death, Nothing

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
John Linder

Legal, Fact, Simply

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
Carol P. Christ

Life, Nature, Death

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
Margaret Cavendish

Nature, Mind, Body

My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.
David Rudisha

Success, Family, Time

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Harold Brodkey

True, Long, Before

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
Ellis Peters

Death, After, Common

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