(uncountable) The process of childbearing.
(countable) An instance of childbirth.
(countable) A
beginning or start; a point of origin.
(uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
He was of noble birth, but
fortune had not favored him.
Gift it
_Johnson_64x64.png "Quotations by Jack (musician) Johnson")
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=77772&author=Abraham Cowley"e=We+griev%27d%2C+we+sigh%27d%2C+we+wept%3B+we+never+blush%27d+before.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F3617%2FAbraham_Cowley_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=89672&author=Billy Idol"e=Everybody+got+it+wrong.+I+said+I+was+into+porn+again%2C+not+born+again.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F14197%2FBilly+Idol_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=90525&author=Penn Jillette"e=Technology+adds+nothing+to+art.+Two+thousand+years+ago%2C+I+could+tell+you+a+story%2C+and+at+any+point+during+the+story+I+could+stop%2C+and+ask%2C+Now+do+you+want+the+hero+to+be+kidnapped%2C+or+not%3F+But+that+would%2C+of+course%2C+have+ruined+the+story.+Part+of+the+experience+of+being+entertained+is+sitting+back+and+plugging+into+someone+else%27s+vision.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F10816%2FPenn_Jillette_64x64.png){kind=link}
 Johnson"e=Well%2C+Plato%27s+cave+is+full+of+freaks%0ADemanding+refunds+for+the+things+they%27ve+seen%0AI+wish+they+could+believe%0AIn+all+the+things+that+never+made+the+screen%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F14252%2FJack+%28musician%29_Johnson_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=96602&author=Malcolm X"e=We+are+African%2C+and+we+happened+to+be+in+America.+We+are+not+American.+We+are+people+who+formerly+were+Africans+who+were+kidnapped+and+brought+to+America.+Our+forefathers+weren%27t+the+Pilgrims%2C+we+didn%27t+land+on+Plymouth+Rock%2C+the+rock+was+landed+on+us.+We+were+brought+here+against+our+will.+We+were+not+brought+here+to+be+made+citizens.+We+were+not+brought+here+to+enjoy+the+constitutional+gifts+that+they+speak+so+beautifully+about+today.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F14485%2FMalcolm+X_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=98483&author=Sir Peter Medawar"e=We+wring+our+hands+over+the+miscarriages+of+technology+and+take+its+benefactions+for+granted.+We+are+dismayed+by+air+pollution+but+not+proportionately+cheered+up+by%2C+say%2C+the+virtual+abolition+of+poliomyelitis.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F3744%2FSir+Peter+Medawar_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=99458&author=Henry Hart Milman"e=And+the+cold+marble+leapt+to+life+a+god.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F14611%2FHenry+Hart+Milman_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=108630&author=Tupac Shakur"e=I+was+born+not+to+make+it+but+I+did.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F8320%2FTupac_Shakur_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=109478&author=Osbert Sitwell"e=Everywhere+men+have+unlocked+the+prisoners+within%2C+and+from+under+the+disguising+skins+the+apes+have+leapt+joyfully+out.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F8273%2FOsbert+Sitwell_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=120645&author=Erich Fromm"e=Man%27s+main+task+in+life+is+to+give+birth+to+himself.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F160%2FErich+Fromm_64x64.png){kind=link}