A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates,
should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas
- a place where history comes to life.
--Norman Cousins (1915-90) American editor, writer, author
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world
should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirini-us was
governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city.
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea,
to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the
house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed,
who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her
to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped
him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was
no place for them in the inn.
--The Bible, Luke John 1:12
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish,
we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we
come to man's estate, is the gift of education
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
--Bishop Hall
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.
We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds,
lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
Every child must be taught these principles.
Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant,
by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.
--George W. Bush
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
--Ovid
Every thought in consciousness has been born into form,
a temporary form and then it dies and goes onto another form.
You could say the whole world is consciousness having taken birth
as form, manifesting as form temporarily, and then dying which
means dissolving as form. What always remains is the essence of
all that exists - consciousness itself.
--Eckhart Tolle
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
--Samuel Beckett
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater
power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the
bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height
in the divine knowledge.
--Michel de Montaigne
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday
but never remembers her age.
--Robert Frost
Some leaders are born women.
--United Nations conference slogan
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to
himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
--Robert Bolt
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
--Buddha
Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
--Kahlil Gibran
A man is not completely born until he is dead.
--Benjamin Franklin
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
--Seneca
We are all born naked and screaming and if you're lucky
that sort of thing won't stop there
--Unknown
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient
time for any of them.
--Margaret Mitchell Gone with the wind
Nobility is not a birthright. It is defined by one's actions.
--Robin Hood
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
--William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life
are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations,
the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones
are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced,
stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave.
Our lives are measured by these
--Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) American reformer
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
--John Mason
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another,
"What! You, too? I thought I was the only one."
--C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) British author
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
--Felicia D. Hemas. 1794-1835
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
--George Santayana
Do not despair, every new born baby is a potential prophet
--RD Laing British Psychiatrist
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the
days when we have a new birth.
--Ralph Parlette
Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.
--Frederick Leboyer
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us,
our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
--William Wordsworth
Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live
--Unknown
You're not getting older, you're getting better
--Unknown
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything;
the young know everything.
--Oscar Wilde
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person
you meet reminds you of someone else.
--Ogden Nash
Youth has no age.
--Pablo Picasso
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
--Bob Hope
We are always the same age inside.
--Gertrude Stein
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
--Robert Browning
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for
the common birthday.
--John Glenn
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
--Bernard M. Baruch
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
--French proverb
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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