Famous quotes containing the words give and/or birth:
“The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The boredom of Sunday afternoon, which drove de Quincey to drink laudanum, also gave birth to surrealism: hours propitious for making bombs.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)