Birthrate Quotes

#1. It's one thing to run from ghosts, it's quite another to let them catch you.

Liza Palmer

#2. I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly

Bertrand Russell

#3. If there is a birthrate demographic problem, and there is, it is with the non-White races Israeli Arabs who are American will remain Israeli citizens.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#4. Ego is borne of the need to 'prove' oneself instead of making the choice to 'be' oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.

Rush Limbaugh

#7. I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

Buddy Guy

#8. Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.

Charles Stross

#9. When I read books, it is like I have met the sacred souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. (liberal individualism triumphed as long as it undermined intermediate structures such as nations, corporations, castes, but when it attacked that ultimate social structure, the family, and thus the birthrate, it signed its own death warrant; Muslim dominance was a foregone conclusion).

Michel Houellebecq

#11. There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer.

Margaret Sanger

#12. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Earl Warren

#13. You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.

Rene Denfeld

#14. If they bulge in the brain or anywhere else of interest, the wallet is a good alternate location. And I should know.

Maureen Johnson

#15. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

Jennifer James

#16. Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. According to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority Muslim country anyway in about 50 years ... I get a lot of e-mails from Americans who think that Europeans are spineless. And I think they're right.

Pat Condell

#18. Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is the birthrate per anum?' is zero (one hopes).

Mary Roach

#19. I have a really terrible sense of direction.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt