Famous quotes containing the words live, birth and/or rate:
“Casting me adrift, 3500 miles from a port of call. Youre sending me to my doom, eh? Well, youre wrong, Christian! Ill take this boat as she floats to England if I must. Ill live to see youall of youhanging from the highest yardarms in the British fleet.”
—Talbot Jennings (18961985)
“I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, dont have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like theyre killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. Wed not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.”
—Spike Lee (b. 1956)