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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

birthday.

There is two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.