“About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.” PeopleLeftBirthFavorsStorks Author:Kin Hubbard
“When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.” GivingWritingChildrenWholeMotivationalTogetherMotherLeftCuttingPoetBirthBiggerMeaningfulAriseIslandsDancerMeaninglessIsolatedNot AloneLeft Alone Author:Rajneesh
“What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?” IfsMenLeftBirthAncestorStainsOffspringAncestry Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.” MomentsSchoolScienceLeftCuttingBuddhismBirthWaveBoardsThat MomentSurfer Author:Frederick Lenz
“I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband, I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny, finally and ultimately sated ... But enough about the pork.” FirstsLongHardEnoughHomeOrderGirlPassionLeftExistenceBirthHusbandDenyEveningIntimateMy HusbandCravingPillsBirth ControlPorkDormantSwept AwaySatedBirth Control Pills Author:Roseanne Barr
“Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.” SufferingLeftMovementBuddhismBirthOceanWaveAriseShore Author:Frederick Lenz
“Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.” WantGivingLittlesDoeStillsDiesLeftNationsGenerationsBloodDyingBirthGenocideHeroicWanting To DieArmeniansArmeniaArmenian Genocide Author:Anatole France
“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.” GivingHeartBookSchoolFunnyGirlHouseLeftSexCommonBoysFailingSonBirthAmbitionHumorousPartnersCommon SenseFancyGloriousBreastsAmbitiousAlliancesStirringBoy And GirlGiving Birth Author:Charles Dickens
“Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.” TwoCountryEnoughLeftMillionsMaterialsAmountBirthWastePercentAreasEnvironmentalRateCancerIllnessProductionsCanadaRegionsPollutionDefectsHighwaysTransMeterMiningUraniumBirth DefectsUranium MiningSaskatchewanRadioactive Waste Author:Winona LaDuke
“I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.” IfsPoliticalLeftWonderBirth Author:Abigail Disney
“Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them drop in on Earth, and when they do, they're called meteorites.” EarthLeftRocksBirthSolar SystemAsteroids Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.” YearsFirstsBigsKidsWantedSchoolLeftCareersProductsBirthDaughterBillsNineConsumersRanDivisionMicrosoftNine YearsChunksBusiness School Author:Melinda Gates
“If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.” IfsEnoughHouseLeftWhiteBehindsListeningBirthWake UpSensesWhite HouseProgressiveParenthoodRhetoricLeft BehindBenevolenceBirth ControlPlanned ParenthoodAnesthetics Author:Michelle Malkin
“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.” IfsInspirationalYearsWellsLittlesDoeReasonActionCertainTimeLeftBirthWasteWake UpIllnessHappyCertaintyLive LifeWakingWasting TimeBeing HappyMondayLittle TimeTerminalDon't Waste Your TimeLive Life HappyTime LeftWay Of The WarriorHappy InspirationalLife Is PreciousPeaceful WarriorTerminal IllnessLittle Time Left Author:Dan Millman
“Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires, ...shall duly flame again” WorldBodyFormLostLeftForceFireIdentityObjectsColdBirthFlamesVisibleEmbersSluggish Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.” LeftBirthBillsBlurVisa Author:Sophie Kinsella
“UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.” ShouldBelieveCountryShowsFallOpportunityLeftI BelieveGrowthPoorPracticeStudyBirthGainsImpactRatePopulationCurrentsPlanningIncomeDevelopingEmpoweringFortyEarningTacticsIntimidationDeveloping CountriesPopulation GrowthFamily PlanningBirth Rate Author:Muhammad Yunus
“What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.” LongTwoSpiritualLeftAttentionSituationWorryBirthInchesGravestone Book:Stillness Speaks Source: Stillness Speaks
“When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.” GivingHeartChildrenDoneWantedMotherFallJesusLostLeftHurtFiveBirthMy HeartTwentiesTablesArguingDesertKneesKitchenFourthHurt MePistols Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.” KnowsFirstsLittlesWarEndsStoriesMightLeftForgetMistakeHeardBirthOne DayThousandComfortableTragedyCriminalsGravesCoincidenceForget ItCharlieLarksWar StoriesSmall Mistakes Author:Holly Black