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LitQuotes Found 11 Birth Quotes(Click on items in Author or Source column to see more items from that author or title.)
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| I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |  | | . . . for when a child is born the mother also is born again. | Gilbert Parker | Parables Of A Province | | | Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Curse of Eve | | | "Something of his birth place seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with gray archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Musgrave Ritual | | | "We are all born for love," said Morley. "It is the principle of existence, and its only end." | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | | | He was a ferocious man. He had been ill-made in the making. He had not been born right, and he had not been helped any by the moulding he had received at the hands of society. The hands of society are harsh, and this man was a striking sample of its handiwork. | Jack London | White Fang | | | Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex. | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | | | The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. | E. M. Forster | Howards End | | | A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. | E. M. Forster | Howards End | | | All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life. | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | | | "This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away, go; they say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death." | William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor | |
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