Birth Rate Decline

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

    “They do not live in the world,
    Are not in time and space.
    From birth to death hurled
    No word do they have, not one
    To plant a foot upon,
    Were never in any place.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo—slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.”
    —Bernard Cooper (b. 1936)

    “The decline of a culture
    Mourned by scholars who dream of the ghosts of Greek boys.”
    —Stephen Spender (1909–1995)