at the birth
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I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
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.
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.
The poor, short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.
I was at the birth of my two girls.
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.