Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common of thinking by the body of the people so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

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.

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes spirited competition and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion both within the major leagues and around the world.

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth growth work healing and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate give birth share the human condition and die.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

We should weep for men at their birth not at their death.

In Goddess religion death is not feared but is understood to be a part of life followed by birth and renewal.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Men should be bewailed at their birth and not at their death.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.