#birth

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


Francis Bacon


#creatures #first #innovations #living #living creatures

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#birth certificate #cents #certificate #extra #fifty

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.


Kirstie Alley


#binge #birthday party #day #every #every day

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.


Mary Antin


#birth #bits #body #born #exceedingly

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.


Ayn Rand


#code #culture #ethics #every #needs

You hate birthdays yet pee your pants over presents. There is clearly something wrong with you," Garrett joked.


T.E. Sivec


#funny #garrett #haha #lol #parker

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.


Charles Erwin Wilson


#birth #birth control #control #futile #like

I erupt from the dark, crushing tunnel into a flash of light and noise. A new kind of air surrounds me, dry and cold, as they wipe the last smears of home off my skin. I feel a sharp pain as they snip something, and suddenly I am less. I am no one but myself, tiny and feeble and utterly alone. I am lifted and swungthrough great heights across yawning distances, and given to Her. She wraps around me, so much bigger and softer than I ever imagined from inside,and I strain my eyes open. I see Her. She is immense, cosmic. She is the world. The world smiles down on me, and when She speaks it’s the voice of God, vast and resonant with meaning, but words unknowable, ringing gibberish in my blank white mind.


Isaac Marion


#birth #unique #beauty

He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in his heart, in his mind. For the comfortless logic, the curse of clear sight, no matter which string he pulls on the same wretched knot: (a) the futility of seeing given the fatality in a place such as this where a mother still bloody must bury her newborn, hose off, and go home to pound yam into paste; (b) the persistence of beauty, in fragility of all places!, in a dewdrop at daybreak, a thing that will end, and in moments, and in a garden, and in Ghana, lush Ghana, soft Ghana, verdant Ghana, where fragile things die.


Taiye Selasi


#childbirth #fragility #ghana #life #philosophy

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance


J.K. Rowling


#death #j-k-rowling #the-casual-vacancy #death