Previous Birth Quotes

#1. My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

Stanley Hauerwas

#2. Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.

Gurinder Chadha

#3. It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge.

Sharon Gannon

#4. If you make a person believe that his misfortune in this birth is due to his sins in his previous birth, he will resign himself to his fate and not vent his fury on society at large.

Amish Tripathi

#5. I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

A.R. Rahman

#6. On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.

Michael Lewis

#7. It was a pointed sigh, as sighs sometimes are, not one cast into the air to evaporate, but one calculated to descend, precisely and with great effect, on a target.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. If every birth is a rebirth, and if every life pays for the previous life, then what were you paying for in your first birth? You

Lee Strobel

#9. Even if the previous millisecond is closer to us than the birth of the universe, it is equally out of reach.

Jean-Christophe Valtat

#10. John Kerry says the 'W' in George W. Bush stands for 'Wrong.' But he still can't explain what John Kerry stands for.

David Letterman

#11. But no one could control Mark Littleberry; the man was fundamentally uncontrollable.

Richard Preston

#12. Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.

Randall Mann

#13. There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.

Corrie Ten Boom

#14. Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

Eskinder Nega

#15. My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#16. You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Bernard Berenson

#17. I feel more productive, mostly because I feel like my ass is on the line. Before I had kids, I would sit around, drink, I don't even know what I did with myself ...

Walter Martin

#18. Getting your first review is like getting your teeth whitened. You hope it doesn't hurt as much as they say on the internet and you also hope it will leave you with a blinding smile.

Kathy Parks

#19. I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

Juliette Binoche

#20. Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

Belle Boyd

#21. Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in tie and exist in two places at once.

Margaret Atwood