Birth Quotes
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.
The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.
My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.
And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty.
What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.
Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams.
So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.
Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!
As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.
There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.
Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.
High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.
I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.
If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.
They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.