Famous quotes containing the words gave birth, gave and/or birth:
“The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“I gave my life for freedom—this I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so.”
—W.N. (William Norman)
“O take fast hold; let that light be thy guide
In this small course which birth draws out to death,”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)