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 – American Author 1835-1910
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 – American First Lady
1884-1962
Death, like birth, is a secret of
Nature.
--Marcus
Aurelius – Roman Soldier 121-180
The act of birth is the first
experience of anxiety, and thus
the source and prototype of the
affect of anxiety.
--Sigmund
Freud - Austrian Psychologist
1856-1939
Never lend your car to anyone to
whom you have given birth.
--Erma
Bombeck – American Journalist
1927-1996
I had seen birth and death but had
thought they were different.
--T. S.
Eliot – American Poet 1888-1965
Even though people may be well
known, they hold in their hearts
the emotions of a simple person
for the moments that are the most
important of those we know on
earth: birth, marriage and death.
--Jackie
Kennedy – American First Lady
1929-1994
After your death you will be what
you were before your birth.
--Arthur
Schopenhauer – German Philosopher
1788-1860
A man is great by deeds, not by
birth.
--Chanakya
– Indian Politician 350 BC – 275
BC
The two big advantages I had at
birth were to have been born wise
and to have been born in poverty.
--Sophia
Loren – Italian Actress Born 1934
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 – German Composer
1770-1827
There is no cure for birth and
death save to enjoy the interval.
--George
Santayana – American Philosopher
1863-1952
The main facts in human life are
five: birth, food, sleep, love and
death.
--E. M.
Forster – English Novelist
1879-1970
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 – French Explorer
1910-1997
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
– Greek Poet 496 BC – 406 BC
To give birth is a fearsome thing;
there is no hating the child one
has borne even when injured by it.
--Sophocles
– Greek Poet 496 BC – 406 BC6 |
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