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As the births of living creatures are at first...

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Quote by Francis Bacon about time

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

Quote by Eva Herzigova about birthday

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your...

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

Quote by Paris Hilton about birthday

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me...

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about birthday, humanity

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of...

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Quote by Franz Kafka about life

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's...

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Quote by Robert Frost about opinion, birthday, age, olderness, woman, man

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about history, present, body, being

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Quote by Aristotel about mother, suffering, children, reason

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about life

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an...

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.

Quote by Johnny Depp about life

Type: Poet Quotes Category: Scottish Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 1732 Year of Death: 1769 Nationality: Scottish Find on Amazon: William Falconer Related Authors: Norman MacCaig Ian Hamilton Finlay Alexander Smith...

Quote by William Falconer about nation, poets, death

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a...

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about marriage, society, idea, sex

My mom told me. I'd forgotten it. She also tells the story of my birth. I'm almost half kidding when I say, I came out and waved. My mother says that I came out head, arm, other arm, thumb in mouth, immediately. They were astounded, because...

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about love, heads, mother

I was famous from birth.

I was famous from birth.

Quote by Peter Fonda

The Peace Conference was the scene, or, shall we say, the first stage, in a tremendous struggle between the new forces, the new hopes and aspirations to which the agony of the World War had given birth, and the champions of the old order in...

Quote by Arthur Henderson about patriotism, fight, force, order, peace, war, old, olderness, world

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet...

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Quote by Franz Kafka about life

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life...

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

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about birh, mistake, life

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about life, husband, death

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.

Quote by John Pearson about people, vulgarity, nothing, common sense, death, world, life

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.

Quote by Erich Fromm about man, personality, life

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