Birth Rate Decline

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

    “Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
    Their life a general mist of error,
    Their death a hideous storm of terror.”
    —John Webster (c. 1580–1638)

    “Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty—excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable—should persist after the beauty was gone.”
    —Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (1866–1941)

    “We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.”
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)