“We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.” ShouldTryingPastAchieveBirthGloryConnectionsFormerRelyArbitrary Author:Shirley Franklin
“Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.” HumansMeanImportantWarPastFilmCommunityHealingForeverBirthSorrowMajorsCapableProfoundWoundsManageHopefulAllowingCaptureChaptersOddsAmerican HistoryDocumentsTornIncidentsAmerican LifeAftermathVietnameseAgainst All OddsTorn ApartWhat It Means To Be HumanSaigon Author:Nguyen Qui Duc
“The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.” PastSpiritStepsMankindMastersBirthSlaveNotionVisibleIronReverseSavagesForefathers Author:James G. Frazer
“Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, 'Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.'” MayHas BeensPastWifeBabyBirthLaborDoctorsDuesSpeedPregnantKateDue DatePregnant Wife Author:Conan O'Brien
“Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.” WorldPastCultureTreeBirthEternityTraditionalLinksAncestorChildbirthExtendingPast PresentPast Present And FutureIntersectionsTree Of Life Author:Sheila Kitzinger
“The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.” BelieveReasonPastSexWhiteLandCreationSweetBirthDirectLogicVoteUltimateFleshHeatSquaresCommitteesManipulateProtestantsProtestantismFunky Author:Norman Mailer
“I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.” MayLittlesPhilosophyWisdomPainPastLostEasyCan DoPleasureHalfWiseAcceptanceBirthPeriodsCircumstancesDrinkPatientYesterdayGladEndeavorMerryBeing WiseMorrowShort LifeBurialInsertRedress Author:Elizabeth Montagu