„Nothing is a better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.“
— Stephen Hawking
„For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„Accursed from their birth they beWho seek to find monogamy,Pursuing it from bed to bed—I think they would be better dead.“
— Dorothy Parker