#birth

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? ↗

— John Heywood

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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. ↗

— Aaron Hill

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ↗

— Bob Hope

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I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

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At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. ↗

— Leon Askin

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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank. ↗

— Samantha Barks

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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

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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

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We had a blast at my magical birthday party. There were midgets, fairies, glass slippers, and I actually got to ride in a pumpkin. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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