When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

—Gracie Allen

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Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964) was an American vaudevillian, singer, actress, and comedian who became famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns, her straight man, appearing with him on radio, television and film as the duo Burns and...

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When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

—Gracie Allen

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He not busy being born is busy dying.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

—Abigail Van Buren

Shadow owes its birth to light.

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God is not a continent, like Antarctica, lying off somewhere, inert, without relation to human life till some Scott or Amundsen or Byrd finds him. God is not a mountain peak to which travelers must go and which they climb step by step. God is like the air we breathe or the earth beneath our feet. To discover God is simply to awaken to reality. It is like a plant discovering the sun and the rain that drew it from the earth or like children discovering the parents who gave them birth and love and nurture.

—Luther A. Weigle

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