Our birth is nothing but our death begun As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing positive personality transformation and consciousness evolution.

In Seattle I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond Virginia might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

Before I pitch any game from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series I'm scared to death.

My father I liked but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

If death is in the room it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it because if you're not you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

Should I perchance still feel after my death I would no longer have any doubt but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

When death has you by the throat you don't mince words.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family about life about death.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

My father was against the death penalty and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

I am against the death penalty.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.