Birth Rate Decline

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

    “The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “We honor motherhood with glowing sentimentality, but we don’t rate it high on the scale of creative occupations.”
    —Leontine Young (20th century)

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