Quotations About / On: BIRTH

  • 41.
    The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
    (E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Aspects of the Novel, ch. 3 (1927).)
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  • 42.
    Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
    (Roseanne Barr Arnold (20th century), U.S. actor and comedian. As quoted in Woman to Woman, by Julia Gilden and Mark Riedman (1994).)
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  • 43.
    Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
    (Erma Bombeck (20th century), U.S. humorist and author. As quoted in Woman to Woman, by Julia Gilden and Mark Riedman (1994).)
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  • 44.
    The boredom of Sunday afternoon, which drove de Quincey to drink laudanum, also gave birth to surrealism: hours propitious for making bombs.
    (Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. The Unquiet Grave, pt. 3 (1944, rev. 1951).)
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  • 45.
    Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
    (Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), British novelist. Lady Amelia de Courcy, Doctor Thorne, vol. 3, ch. xxxviii, London, Chapman and Hall (1858).)
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  • 46.
    Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
    (Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet, lyricist. Hope Is Like a Harebell. Harebell = bluebell.)
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  • 47.
    My love is of a birth as rare
    As 'tis for object strange and high:
    It was begotten by Despair
    Upon Impossibility.
    (Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), British metaphysical poet. The Definition of Love (written c. 1650, published 1681).)
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  • 48.
    Art thou pale for weariness
    Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
    Wandering companionless
    Among the stars that have a different birth,
    (Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. The Waning Moon (l. 7-10). . . The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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  • 49.
    An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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  • 50.
    What is this talked-of mystery of birth
    But being mounted bareback on the earth?
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. Riders.)
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