#birth

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 would be curiosity. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#birth

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #birth

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

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I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#being #birth #constantly #disloyal #enjoying

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#old #question #years #young #youth

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything. ↗

— Willie Dixon

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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#birth #death #enlightenment #long #never