Giving Birth

Famous quotes containing the words giving and/or birth:

“Closed like confessionals, they thread
Loud noons of cities, giving back
None of the glances they absorb.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“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)