Starting Birth Year

Famous quotes containing the words starting, birth and/or year:

    “But even at the starting post, all sleek and new,
    I saw the wildness in her and I thought
    A vision of terror that it must live through
    Had shattered her soul.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “...the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 1:19.

    Egyptian midwives to Pharaoh.

    “Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
    Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
    A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
    And offers for short life, eternal liberty.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)