Quotes having the keyword Birth
From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.
by Sophie Tucker (Entertainer, American , born in 1884) keywords: age, birth, cash, girl, good, looks, needs, parents, personality , she In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
by Desmond Tutu (Leader, South African , born in 1931) keywords: attribute, because, biological, birth, cannot, eighteen, land, person, possesses, she, skin, vote, whereas, white, why, wonderful , young When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
by Morihei Ueshiba (Athlete, Japanese , born in 1883) keywords: always, birth, death, engaged, life, peace, struggle, thwarted, victorious , warrior My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
by Conrad Veidt (Actor, German , born in 1893) keywords: amount, birth, brother, caused, certain, elder, empire, father, fraternal, german, hitherto, home, jealousy, mother, much, neither, nor, only, pleased, pride, shook, son, upheaval , usual Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
by Alfred de Vigny (Poet, French , born in 1797) keywords: actions, also, always, birth, cloudy, consciences, descend, feeling, forms, gives, into, judge, just, minds, our, ourselves, search, thought, vague, weigh , which The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
by Denis Waitley (Writer , American) keywords: aptitude, attitude, birth, criterion, edge, gifted, high, iq, success, talent , winner As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
by Julie Walters (Actor, British , born in 1950) keywords: become, birth, gave, identify, kids, see, soon, start, them, understand , yourself It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.
by Julie Walters (Actor, British , born in 1950) keywords: after, anything, being, birth, extraordinary, harmed, kids, strong, very , watch I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
by Len Wein (Cartoonist, American , born in 1948) keywords: birth, characters, creating, jew, nature, neurotic, new, second , york The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
by Richard Whately (Writer, English , born in 1787) keywords: birth, concerned, far, give, happiest, him, little, lot, man, much, occasion, should, such , think 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.
by Thornton Wilder (Novelist, American , born in 1897) keywords: birth, choice, choose, day, death, faculty, may, mind, nor, our, sovereign , yet It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
by Charles Erwin Wilson (Businessman, American , born in 1890) keywords: birth, control, futile, make, much, past, talk, too , trying The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
by Stevie Wonder (Musician, American , born in 1950) keywords: advantages, been, big, birth, born, had, poverty, two, were , wise When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
by Victoria Woodhull (Activist, American , born in 1838) keywords: birth, broken, child, found, given, had, heart, human, imbecile , wreckage One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: among, beings, birth, fellowship, human, other, our, passing, place, sense, signs, take, them , youth Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
by William Wordsworth (Poet, English , born in 1770) keywords: birth, clouds, come, entire, forgetfulness, forgetting, glory, nakedness, our, sleep, trailing , utter Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
by Edward Young (Poet, English , born in 1683) keywords: begun, birth, death, fire, moment, nothing, our, take, tapers , waste
