Birth Life Quotes:

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

- Robert Frost

source: Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

topic: Birth Life, Earth, Birth

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

- Erich Fromm

source: Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

topic: Men, Giving, Tasks, Moral Failure, My Own Personality

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Mistake, Trying, Birth, Invisible Monsters, Birth Life

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Life Going On, Inspirational Motivational Images

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

- Laurence Housman

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Marriage, Children, Husband, Being A Mother, Inspirational Motherhood

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

- Desmond Morris

source: In 'Sunday Express' 3 November 1991

topic: Journey, Life Is Like, Toys, Birth Life And Death, Birth Life

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

- Smiley Blanton

source: Smiley Blanton (1956). “Love or perish”

topic: Children, Love Is, Giving, Giving Birth, Birth Life

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Life, Mother, Spiritual, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Birth Life

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Life, Death, Curmudgeon, Funerals And Death

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

source: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.38, Basic Books

topic: Educational, Stupid, Men, Birth Life, Need Strength

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Baby, Children, Fun, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Letting Go, Inspirational Life, Sleep, Time To Move On, Forward In Life

It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.39, Courier Corporation

topic: Karma, Memories, Kindness, Birth Life

Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

- Paul David Tripp

topic: Lying, Self, Law, Self Righteousness, Birth Life

Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.

- Cesar Millan

topic: Beautiful, Moving, Animal, Birth Life

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

- Jean de la Bruyere

source: The Characters "Of Mankind" (1688) (translation by Henri Van Laun)

topic: Men, Birth Life And Death, Suffering, Birth Life

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

- Liya Kebede

topic: Country, Giving, Birth, Poor Countries, Birth Life

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

- Rodney Yee

topic: Love, Effectiveness, Birth Life And Death, Perfect Balance, Birth Life

Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Inspirational Life, Eye, Birth Life And Death, Birth Life

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.

- Jean de la Bruyere

source: 'Les Caractéres ou les moeurs de ce siécle' (1688) 'De l'homme'

topic: Life, Pain, Men, Birth Life And Death, Birth Life

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Opposites, Birth, Life Is, Stillness Speaks, Birth Life

It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.

- Francine Rivers

source: Francine Rivers (2013). “The Last Sin Eater”, p.286, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Jesus, Sunset, Son, Sunrise And Sunset, Birth Life

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

- Toni Morrison

source: Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

topic: Life, Death, Nature, Birth Life And Death, Dry Leaves

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Birth Life And Death, Suffering, Events, Birth Life, Great Events