Famous quotes containing the words birth, rate and/or decline:
“While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 2:6,7.
“Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
“My opposition [to interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.”
—James Thurber (18941961)
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