I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Michel Foucault
Revolution, in history, is like the doctor assisting at the birth of a new life, who will not use forceps unless necessary, but who will use them unhesitatingly every time labor requires them. It is a labor bringing the hope of a better life to the enslaved and exploited masses. Che Guevara
The poor, short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was at the birth of my two girls. Clive Owen
As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world. Jill Greenberg