“I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.” KnowsSaidHumorFunnyMotherFatherBirthEasierHundredDollarsFather Son Author:Rita Rudner
“It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.” YearsBirthOne DayHundredAll ThingsContemplationContemplatingBirth And DeathBeginnings And Endings Author:Gautama Buddha
“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.” YearsChildrenLightAgeDeathMotherFourWifeSonHugeBirthKingsDaughterHundredDiedHeavyScoreFortyFour YearsUtopiaSuffocatingBirth Of A Child Author:Francois Rabelais
“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.” LifeWellsLongDreamMotherThreeWaterHealingVisionPrinciplesSpecialExampleSourceBirthHolySpringHundredRainTraditionRiversUniversalPatientAncientMedicalParanormalFeminineGoddessSiteFountainWombGreeceSymbolicSpecial PlacesFertilityAncient GreeceRefreshmentsGreat Mother Author:Christopher McDowell
“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!” PeopleKnowsMenYearsStillsArtistDarkPleasureVirtueFiveFansSubjectsInspireHe ManListeningBirthHundredAncientThis DayGoddessPhasesWorldlySermonsRenaissanceVenusWorldly PleasuresBotticelli Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.” PeopleIfsLooksChildrenHardReasonTodayEarthNightCertainBornToo MuchBabyBirthDrinkThousandPercentHundredAccidentsAliensFlatteringBirth Control Author:Jodi Picoult
“You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.” MindMayBodyDiesBreakBirthHundredYour BodyTurmoil Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.” KnowsMightThreeFourBirthHundredHypocrisyBirthdaySixtyMy BirthdayWise Birthday40th BirthdayBirthday WishesThrough The Looking GlassQuotations Birthday Happy BirthdayBirthday CardHumpty DumptyHumorous BirthdayFunny Birthday CardFunny Birthday WishesBirthday Wishes FunnyBirthday Greetings21st Birthday Book:Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Source: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
“What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.” GivingYearsMotherCulturePeaceBornSonBirthHundredYears AgoMy TimeMeant To BeMaryFourteen Author:Meister Eckhart