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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.

Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.

Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

Fear can be overcome only by Faith.

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.

Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? I bet Obama is sorry now that he spent all that money on the new birth certificate.

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth.

He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor.

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.