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“John McCain turned 72 years old last Friday, but the Chinese are making him a birth certificate that says he's only 33 and then he'll be ready to go.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer. I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was, 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath'. For three years my husband and I slept on bunk beds. I'm a double bagger. Not only does my husband put a bag over my face when we're making love, but he also puts a bag over his head in case mine falls off. It's so long since I've had sex, I've forgotten who ties up whom. My best birth control now is to leave the lights on.”

“We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings. Instead, we continue to develop from birth until death. We must recognize that every day of life has a special value, that it is not without purpose that we must learn to live through our thirties right after we have just gone through our twenties. We need to learn that each new day and each new year offers continual revelation.”

Needs Years Humans Moments Purpose Values Human Beings Gone Special Birth Offers Twenties Educated Revelations New Year Modesty New Day Each New Day

Book:Education as a Force for Social Change

Source: Education as a Force for Social Change

“When my birth parents were murdered, I stayed outdoors all night with the bodies. Years later in America, around fourteen, my psychiatrist explained to me that staying with the bodies that night made me fearless. He said that it made me an 'emotional exhibitionist' and told me never to let people convince me that I was weird for speaking with clarity and passion.”

People Years Made Said Body America Night Passion Parent Emotional Birth Clarity Fearless Convince Staying All Night Psychiatrist Fourteen Exhibitionist Birth Parents

Author:Kola Boof

“The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza).”

Years Book Ends Jobs Deals Cutting Materials Birth Yeah Obliged Juniors Blogs Pizza Junior High

Author:Jason Mulgrew

“As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!”

“I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years.”

Years Believe Certain I Believe Can Do Amount Birth Drug Capacity Alcohol You Can Do It Drugs And Alcohol

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“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

“Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.”

People Years Hard Form Common Imagine Crime Birth Years Ago Prison Birth Control

Author:Dick Durbin

“My wish and hope, every year, is that people's life chances - their chances of having a happy, prosperous, healthy life for themselves and their family and friends - should not depend on accident of birth. It shouldn't depend on where you're born. It should depend on who you are and what you do. But it shouldn't depend on the chance and the luck of being born in the U.S. or in a poor village in Sub-Saharan Africa or India or wherever it may be.”

“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.”

Years Firsts Bigs Kids Wanted School Left Careers Products Birth Daughter Bills Nine Consumers Ran Division Microsoft Nine Years Chunks Business School

Author:Melinda Gates

“In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.”

“Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.”

Years Believe Wells Country Facts Millions Gone Birth Ten Limits Europe Rate Including Other Countries Seventies Birth Rate

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.”

Years Firsts Use Birth Tools Delay Controversial Contraception

Author:Bill Gates

“Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.”

People Giving Years Feelings Running Millions Birth Decades Length Giving Birth Great Feelings

Author:Reid Hoffman

“A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing.”

Years Birth Kings Decades Assassination

Author:Nate Powell

“The hunting season is sacred. It's been sacred in my life since birth. I've never missed a hunting season in 64 years. It's my calling, it's what I am, it's how I was designed, it's what inspires, fascinates, satisfies, and drives my quality of life. And I know that it brings me such joy, and it does such a critical and essential performance for nature and for the environment, that I am dedicated and have been for over 40 years to promoting and celebrating that. I never defend it. I always promote and celebrate it.”

Knows Years Doe Has Beens Joy Quality Environment Inspire Birth Calling Essentials Performances Seasons Sacred Critical Celebrate Dedicated Hunting Promoting Quality Of Life Hunting Season

Author:Ted Nugent

“A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.”

Years Has Beens Christian Reading Next Months Birth Celebration Next Year Ambassadors

Author:Roger Moore

“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”

“Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.”

Years Film Actors Understanding Dark Keys Birth Thirds Genre Features Movie Superhero Craving Knights Nolan

Author:John Podhoretz

“My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.”

Years Kids Cutting Dog Baby Birth Parenting Motherhood Dumb Memorable Cords Leashes Baby Boy Obstetricians

Author:Joan Rivers

“Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.”

Years Kids Used Mother Easy Sleep Birth Daughter Wake Up My Daughter Ripped Melissa

Author:Joan Rivers

“Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.”

Years Dream America Opportunity Nations Progress Birth Kings Realization Luther Anniversary

Author:Adam Schiff

“I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.”

People Years Has Beens Birth Expected Vanity Vain

Author:Wallace Shawn

“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.”

Men Giving Years Hard Found Born Strange Birth Forgiving Fruit Ancient Protest Hard Things Through The Years Matriarchs

Author:Lillian Smith

“There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.”

Years Believe Long Cases Comedy Poet Birth Died

Author:James Thurber

“Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

People Thinking Years Body Voice Common Behinds Opinion Birth Mass Experience Outcomes Solitary Masterpiece

Book:A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

Source: A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

“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.”

“The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.”

Source: David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events

“I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.”

Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson

“The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.”

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed his eyes, who loved me when I was a mess in the morning and when dinner was late and even when I overloaded the washing machine and burned out the motor. [My son] stares up at me as if I can do no wrong. I have always wanted someone who treats me the way he does; I just didn't know that I'd have to give birth to him.”

“We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.”

Knows Years Important Knowing Birth

Book:Hotel World

Source: Hotel World

“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.”

People Years Long Beautiful Evil Natural Cities Struggle Birth Defeat Brilliant Triumph Rising Abyss Beautiful City Tale Of Two Cities

Book:A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels

Source: A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels

“And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.”

Years Memories Birth Tomorrow Longing Silent Lips Yesterday Pursued

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter.”

Years Stills Two Return Birth Taxes Daughter Adults Seven Phones Deeds Thank God License Seven Years Certificates Paperwork Birth Certificate Tax Returns

Author:Kelly Corrigan

“Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its creators, it deserves to be seen as the purest incarnation yet of the ideology that gave it birth.”

World Years Creation Birth Deserve Iraq Creator Russia Contemporary Ideology Fifty Incarnation Crusades Cronyism

Book:The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

“Yeah, well, I’ll be glad to birth it if it means I can name him something normal. (Zarek) Yeah, yeah. This from a man who whines like a two-year-old when he stubs his toe. I’d like to see you survive ten hours of childbirth. (Astrid)”

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Book:Dream Warrior

Source: Dream Warrior

“Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.”

Ifs Years Whole Universe Sea Birth Solitude All Things Lonely Originals Distance Sticks Separation Proportion Yards Destined Particles

Author:Ian Caldwell

“He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.”

Men Should Years Doe Said Lasts Dies Born Grace Alive Birth

Author:Frederick Buechner

“[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.”

People Way Trying Years Humans Soul Self Hands Speak Language Human Beings Cutting Birth Genius Understood Wings Tiny Temper New Ways Stamps Particles Polish Inner Self Fiery Year One

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on of their birth. ... Not political refugees, escaping a repressing regime, nor economic refugees, crossing a border in search of a better-paying job. The are hedonic refugees, moving to a new land, a new culture, because they are happier there. Usually hedonic refugees have an ephiphany, a moment of great clarity when they realize, beyond a doubt, that they were born in the wrong country.”

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Author:Eric Weiner

“Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand.”

Giving Years Long Hard Light Lasts Joy Night Wall Birth Sorrow Climbs Candle Long Ago Giving Birth Staircases Foreseen

Book:The Senses of Consciousness: Swann's Way in Half

Source: The Senses of Consciousness: Swann's Way in Half

“It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.”

Source: The Last Sin Eater

“When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God's supreme triumph of good over evil.”

“but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it.”

Thinking Needs Years Has Beens Kids Next Special New York Birth Paid Twenties Educational Arguing Stuck Plenty Experts Tanks Ankles Consultants Special Needs Snapping

Author:Meg Rosoff

“But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the incomparable pretties of Indian Mexico.”

Years Feelings Lying Suffering Turns Girl Causes Gone Birth Direct Graves Lust Indian Staring Mexico Princess Offensive Pretty Girl Celibacy Suffering And Death

Book:The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

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