All Quotes

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
‐‐ Ai Weiwei

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me.
‐‐ Peter Sis

The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.
‐‐ Jennifer Gilmore

'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and modern audiences have to wrestle with that beloved movie's romanticizing of racism.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

The birth of any show is always a rough one.
‐‐ Genevieve Gorder

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.
‐‐ Ernest Istook

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
‐‐ Paul Davies

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
‐‐ Annie Besant

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
‐‐ Omar Bongo

The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.
‐‐ George Matthew Adams

The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of the world, calendar years are numbered forward and backward from the entire time of His birth.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.
‐‐ Sheldon Whitehouse

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
‐‐ Brendan Myers

The births of my two daughters were the two greatest moments of my life.
‐‐ Alex Rodriguez

The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.
‐‐ Mary Berry

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.
‐‐ Howard Staunton

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.
‐‐ Maria Monk

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
‐‐ Howard Staunton

The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest.
‐‐ Alan Bennett

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
‐‐ Harriet Beecher Stowe

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.
‐‐ Ely Culbertson

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
‐‐ Amiri Baraka

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy.
‐‐ Issa Rae

The black church will accept anybody.
‐‐ James McBride

The black comedians meeting? Oh yeah, we hold one every year at Eddie Murphy's house.
‐‐ Jay Pharoah

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
‐‐ Benjamin Todd Jealous

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
‐‐ Gabrielle Union

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
‐‐ Nate Parker

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
‐‐ Ed Smith

The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country.
‐‐ Andrea Navedo

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
‐‐ Richard Pryor

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.
‐‐ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
‐‐ Dan Auerbach

The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.
‐‐ Claudia Rankine

'The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while 'The Age of the Five' was about a conflict between continents.
‐‐ Trudi Canavan

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.
‐‐ Kobe Bryant

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
‐‐ Steven Biko

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
‐‐ Malcolm X

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
‐‐ Milton Friedman

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
‐‐ Bobby Seale

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
‐‐ Bobby Seale

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
‐‐ Bobby Seale