Crude Birth Rate

Famous quotes containing the words crude, birth and/or rate:

    A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
    Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    We honor motherhood with glowing sentimentality, but we don’t rate it high on the scale of creative occupations.
    Leontine Young (20th century)