"I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth."
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"Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings."
"All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death."
"Taking action births motivation."
"It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake."
"What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread."
"Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage."
"The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth."
"Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth."
"Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education."
"One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth."
"Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?"
"Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer."
"'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth."
"From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers."
"On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone."
"The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life."
"No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more."
"Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?."
"Birth means nothing where there is no virtue."