Birth Quotes

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote...

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

I was determined to experience the birth, and I am so scared at the thought of having my abdomen cut open. So I was lucky that the birth went very smoothly.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.

The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

You don't touch my face! It's a birth right! This was given to me by God! You do not touch my face!

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

Every baby's first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.