Birth quotes

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
-- Aaron Hill

#Belief #Moral #Birth

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Humanity #Fundamentals #Birth

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
-- Adolf Hitler

#May #Common #Birth

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?
-- Alan Rufus

#Life #Sandwiches #Birth

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
-- Albert Camus

#Artist #Revolution #Birth

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
-- Albert Einstein

#Path #Birth #Theory

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Struggle #Birth

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.
-- Alfred Noyes

#Christmas #Soul #Birth

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.
-- Alice Cary

#Noble #Honest #Birth

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Giving #Birth #Mates

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Success #Achievement #Birth

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
-- Ami McKay

#Children #Breathing #Birth

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?
-- Amin Maalouf

#Men #Birth #Certain

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.
-- Amit Ray

#Meditation #World #Birth

How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.
-- Anais Nin

#Stress #Burning #Birth

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
-- Andrei Platonov

#War #Men #Birth

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

#Mother #Birth #Pinnacle

But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It’s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.
-- Anna McPartlin

#Pain #Who We Are #Birth

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.
-- Anna Nicole Smith

#Names #Birth #Certificates

Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.
-- Antal Szerb

#Age #Beloved #Birth

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
-- Aristotle

#Mean #Parent #Birth

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Death #Birth

The moment you're born you're done for.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Giving #Done #Birth

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
-- Arthur Keith

#Jesus #Taught #Birth

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
-- Augustine Birrell

#Ideas #Action #Birth

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.
-- Austin Osman Spare

#Birth #Form #Imagery

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
-- Ayya Khema

#Feelings #Birth #Reactions

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers,
-- Barbara Katz Rothman

#Mother #Baby #Birth

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
-- Barney Frank

#Believe #Government #Birth

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Advice #Patient #Birth

Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.
-- Bernie Siegel

#Pain #Giving #Birth

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
-- Bette Midler

#Giving #Birth #Virgins

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

#Granddaughter #Want #Birth

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
-- Bodhidharma

#Moving #Birth #Disappear

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
-- Bodhidharma

#Attachment #Birth #Clinging

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
-- Bodhidharma

#Long #Enlightenment #Birth

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.
-- Bruce R. McConkie

#Heaven #Preparation #Birth

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
-- C. S. Forester

#Thank God #Birth #Miserable

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
-- Carl Jung

#Pain #Birth #Consciousness

I am! I have come through! I belong!
-- Carl Sandburg

#Birth

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
-- Carol P. Christ

#Birth #Goddess #Renewal

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
-- Cesare Lombroso

#Genius #Mediocrity #Birth

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.
-- Charlie LeDuff

#People #Toxic #Birth

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
-- Chiang Kai-shek

#Fall #Mean #Birth

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.
-- Chris Oyakhilome

#Mean #Dna #Birth

natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.
-- Christiane Northrup

#Life Changing #Birth #Natural

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...
-- Christina Rossetti

#Hope #Birth #Trembling

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
-- Christopher Eccleston

#Parent #Birth #Difficult

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Order #Moral #Birth

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Mistake #Trying #Birth

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.
-- Clarence Day

#Eggs #Ancestry #Birth

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
-- Clarence Day

#Giving #World #Birth

Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.
-- Claude Martin

#Country #Birth #Rate

I was at the birth of my two girls.
-- Clive Owen

#Girl #Two #Birth

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

#Wwe #Faces #Birth

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.
-- Cybill Shepherd

#Television #Just Being #Birth

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.
-- Daniel Quinn

#Culture #World #Birth

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.
-- Daniel Quinn

#Men #Birth #Appearance

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

#Children #Birth #Given

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
-- David Mitchell

#Kindness #Past #Birth

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
-- David Mitchell

#Kindness #Birth #Crime

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

#Earth #Spirituality #Birth

Creating your own reality is the richest gift you received at birth.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Reality #Creating #Birth

Every man should see the birth of his children
-- Dennis Banks

#Children #Men #Birth

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.
-- Diane Setterfield

#Stories #Birth #Continuation

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.
-- Dixie Lee Ray

#Principles #Recycling #Birth

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
-- Douglas Horton

#Thinking #Age #Birth

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.
-- Douglas Horton

#Birth #Born

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
-- Douglas Horton

#Death #Birth #Forgotten

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

#Saint #Birth #Born

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.
-- E. M. Delafield

#Strong #Soul #Birth

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.
-- E. T. A. Hoffmann

#Men #Earth #Birth

It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.
-- E.W. Jackson

#Principles #Birth #Sin

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Opposites #Birth #Life Is

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual.
-- Edgar Cayce

#Death #Spiritual #Birth

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Birth #Influence #Hours

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.
-- Edwin Way Teale

#Space #Birth #Length

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.
-- Elie Wiesel

#Education #Mean #Birth

Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.
-- Elizabeth Noble

#Love Is #Energy #Birth

However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.
-- Elizabeth Noble

#Pregnancy #Birth #Particular

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

#Helping #Planning #Birth

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.
-- Emily Oster

#Talking #Birth

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.
-- Emily Oster

#Risk #Gardening #Birth

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
-- Emily Prager

#Beauty #Suffering #Birth

I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.
-- Eminem

#Hip Hop #Firsts #Birth

From birth to death we are alone ...
-- Enid Bagnold

#Birth

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.
-- Epicurus

#Men #Birth #Realizing

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
-- Eric Berne

#Frogs #Birth #Born

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

#Thinking #Birth #Resilient

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.
-- Erich Fromm

#Hope #Mean #Birth

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.
-- Erich Fromm

#Knowing Who You Are #Birth #Born

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
-- Erich Fromm

#Giving #Birth #Individual

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
-- Eugene Field

#Ideas #Birth #Pendulums

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.
-- Eve Arnold

#Children #Poverty #Birth

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.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Friday #Weekend #Birth

Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.
-- Florence Nightingale

#World #May #Birth

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell

#Death #Pregnancy #Birth

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Passion #Heart #Birth

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.
-- Frederic Henry Hedge

#Death #Birth #This Life

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,
-- Frederick Leboyer

#Baby #Way #Birth