Birth Rate Decline

Famous quotes containing the words birth, rate and/or decline:

    A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)