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Birth Quotes and Quotations
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall. Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife. The government is concerned about the population explosion, and the population is concerned about the government explosion. We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals, but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. In my beginning is my end. When I was born I did lament and cry And now each day doth shew the reason why. Where, unwilling, dies the rose, Buds the new, another year. Husbands don't really count ... in the miracle of birth. And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do . . . For all men have one entrance into life. The Apocrypha Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe Thursday's child has far to go Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living, But the child born on the Sabbath day Is happy and wise and good and gay. As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. Born on Monday, fair in the face; Born on Tuesday, full of God's grace; Born on Wednesday, sour and sad; Born on Thursday, merry and glad; Born on Friday, worthily given; |