Giving Birth

Famous quotes containing the words giving and/or birth:

“One promises much, to avoid giving little.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)

“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)