#birth

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it? ↗

— Eric Liu

#ask #birth #citizenship #conferred #denial

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us. ↗

— Eric Liu

#birth #citizens #enough #little #lucky

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie? ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#asks #cake #like #pie #say

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#all things #birthday #born #candles #covered

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#baby #beyond #birth #both #bring

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#especially #most #own #remember #risen

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government