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“[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.”

People Home Three House Four Doors Birth Childbirth Home Birth

Author:Joyce Maynard

“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”

Years Children Light Age Death Mother Four Wife Son Huge Birth Kings Daughter Hundred Died Heavy Score Forty Four Years Utopia Suffocating Birth Of A Child

Author:Francois Rabelais

“When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.”

Moments Born Four Blood Cry Grew Birth Walking Moon Devil Ears Wings Fishes Forests Flew Monstrous Parody Figs

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.”

“What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.”

Men Trying Different Stories Four Birth Winter Versions Journal

Author:Paul Auster

“If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.”

Ifs Want Years Would Be Secret Behinds Half Sun Four Events Planets Birth Years Ago Billions Helpful Remnants

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.”

Years Reason Half Known Sun Four Planets Birth Years Ago Clouds Billions Dust Gas Transformed Solar System

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?”

Thinking Way Long Water Four Tears Birth Ocean My Friends Shed Again And Again Long Way

Author:Gautama Buddha

“One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon”

Two Three Secret Five Four Birth Sorrow Six Gold Seven Silver Mirth Magpies

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. "Right," simon said. He had already lost count of the numbers of birds there were. Seven, he guessed. A secret that's never been told. Whatever that was.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”

Source: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass