Starting Birth Year

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

“Down went the owners—greedy men whom hope of gain allured:
Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“Our birth is nothing but our death begun.”
—Edward Young (1683–1765)

“The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)