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)

    “Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.”
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)