#birth

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#apprehension #birth #births #defects #entering

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#birth #defects #enact #i #legislation

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#add #birth #comes #daughter #death

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#death #life #philosophical #thoughts #death

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#am #beethoven #birth #i #i am

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#care #character #fortunate #high #know

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#give #home #involves #kind #leaving

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#birth #came #child #house #more

I have been reading Plotinus all evening. He has the power to sooth me; and I find his sadness curiously comforting. Even when he writes: “Life here with the things of earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failure of the wing.” The wing has indeed failed. One sinks. Defeat is certain. Even as I write these lines, the lamp wick sputters to an end, and the pool of light in which I sit contracts. Soon the room will be dark. One has always feared that death would be like this. But what else is there? With Julian, the light went, and now nothing remains but to let the darkness come, and hope for a new sun and another day, born of time’s mystery and a man’s love of life. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#death

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#days #great #i #many #movie