Birth Quotes

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

The birth of my daughter, gave me life.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

Every birth is a getting to know.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.

We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us.

I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

Born a saint, die a sinner - born a sinner, die a saint.

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.

I think between the ages of 15 and 32, don't worry about getting married, don't worry about settling down, don't worry about having a baby. Give birth to yourself.

Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.

Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.

It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.