#birth

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#birth #low #me #money #neither

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. ↗

— Voltaire

#gave #gift #give #god #life

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#about #almost #astrology #because #best

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course. ↗

— Ruth Warrick

#course #fun #good #i #i do

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#experience #hand #jars #never #open

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#clouds #come #entire #forgetfulness #forgetting

There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away." Pg. 155 Undone ↗

— Brooke Taylor

#death #beauty

There is still no cure for the common birthday. ↗

— John Glenn

#common #cure #still

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#because #birth #children #future #give