#birth

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#began #birth #day #hurrying #me

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love. ↗

— Billy Crystal

#create #granddaughter #love #made #me

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.' ↗

— Larry David

#birthday party #funny #gave #got #hey

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#before #birthday #contract #gave #had

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#birthday #bitter #creator #creatures #divides

Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#born #life #living #rebirth #reincarnation

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#changed #could #even #i #me

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth. ↗

— George Eliot

#childbirth #get #i #like #pregnant

Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#building #dignity #empowerment #flowers #gender

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#always #away #because #birthdays #even