Birth Quotes

What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester?

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Birth was the death of him.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.

The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.

Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.

As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.