Birth Quotes

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door.

I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

Incredible experience, watching a baby birth on the internet. It's now my screensaver.

Congratulations to Chelsea Clinton. Over the weekend, she gave birth to a baby girl. The baby girl will not confirm or deny whether she's running in 2056.

Rick Perry is now saying he thinks that Barack Obama's birth certificate is fake. I think Perry may have faked his driver's license.

John McCain turned 72 years old last Friday, but the Chinese are making him a birth certificate that says he's only 33 and then he'll be ready to go.

My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.

The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new

In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship.

Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

I say nothing, because I was able to get Barack Obama to produce [birth certificate]. He should have produced it a long time before. I say nothing.

I think I did a great job and a great service not only for the country, but even for the president [Barack Obama], in getting him to produce his birth certificate.

If you go with what Hillary [Clinton] is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby.

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

I'm just feeling like it was meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his life, we won a Super Bowl Championship.

My best moment of 2011 would definitely be the birth of my daughter six weeks ago, on September 25.

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.

Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

I'm going to be the most competitive birth-giver ever.

From birth to death we are alone.

As we commemorate his birth each year in our holiday celebrations, we should remember that our joy in his first coming should prefigure the even greater joy we will feel at his Second Coming.

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

Never loan your car to anyone to whom you've given birth.

My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

I think tone gives birth to the story.

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.