Famous quotes containing the words gave and/or birth:
““You gave me the key of your heart, my love;
Then why did you make me knock?”
Oh that was yesterday, saints above!
And last night—I changed the lock!”
—John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890)
“I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute—a white skin.”
—Desmond Tutu (b. 1931)