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“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”
“Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.”
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
“Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”
“A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip”
“Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.”
“You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”
“Men are equal, it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
“Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.”
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
“No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.”
“Birth is the beginning of death.”
“Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”
“For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.”
“Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.”
“Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.”
“The greatest work of art created first by God and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole process is an amazing art in itself. The fact that it takes two artists,man and woman,each bringing their own parts of a pallet to create a work of art that not only has a piece of both artists but is also a living,breathing,ever-changing,piece of art with an identity of it's own.”
“The moment you're born you're done for.”
“It is natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
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