Top 100 Birth Giving Quotes
#1. priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptizing with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life. Indeed,
Gloria Steinem
#2. I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
Sam Taylor-Wood
#3. The thing I've done the best in this world is giving birth to Saet Byul. I can't imagine my world without her
Kim Soo-hyun
#4. Writing a story is like giving birth with the only difference that you enjoy the process.
Self
#5. I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men
great men
must build monuments and seek fame?
Karen Essex
#6. All I can say to people who hate their mothers for giving birth to them is "get the fuck out of your scaredy shells and kiss the world".
Jay Woodman
#7. With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.
Mariella Frostrup
#8. Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
Alvin Toffler
#9. Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).
Paulo Coelho
#10. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!
Lady G
#11. She was a defective child-bearing machine. She destroyed herself automatically while giving birth to Dwayne.
Kurt Vonnegut
#12. Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of
what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.
Marianne Williamson
#13. 'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
Homer
#14. A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.
Joseph Campbell
#15. I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance.
Faith Hill
#16. Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth
Christiane Northrup
#17. Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not fit down it is one of the greatest challenges to modern medicine.
Steven Magee
#18. Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.
Shinzo Abe
#19. The seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.
Vicki Baum
#20. My real mom died when I was born - hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to
me, which has never been one of my favorite memories - and Dad married Denise before I'd turned a year. Without even asking my opinion on the
matter. Denise and I never really clicked.
Darynda Jones
#21. A woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because
Anonymous
#22. Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you unearth with stun you. You will paint the walls of this cave in thanksgiving.
Meinrad Craighead
#23. All forms of birth
physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional
bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.
Amy Wright
#24. In Revelation 12, we see a pure, holy woman giving birth to a son - a corporate son who brings victory by the blood of Jesus, their testimony and sacrifice. My vision is to see that kind of church moving in the authority, the sacrifice and love of Jesus.
John Noble
#25. Birth is but the beginning of a trajectory to death; for all their love, parents cannot halt it and in a sense have "given us to death" merely by giving us birth.
Anonymous
#26. You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.
Jeanne Moreau
#27. You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.
Sheila Ballantyne
#28. To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.
Janusz Korczak
#29. Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.
Myles Munroe
#30. I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
Sadie Frost
#31. It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
Ina May Gaskin
#32. [On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?
Joan Fontaine
#33. Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
Carolyn Murphy
#34. Women often approach me with a question- "Will I look like you after I give birth?". I say to them- "Well, have you looked like me before?". People, do not be fooled.
Heidi Klum
#35. Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.
Ina May Gaskin
#36. One cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.
Michel Odent
#37. 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.
Tyler Perry
#38. I served with that son of a bitch, Corporal. Ruiz wouldn't compliment his mother for giving birth to him, if you know what I mean.
John Scalzi
#39. I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth to an Other and simultaneously being reborn as a child in the playground of creation.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#40. I had forgotten about the baby. Until then she had been giving birth to birth - to contractions and noises and liquids. There was someone in there. We
Miranda July
#41. I had done the No Doubt record Push and Shove, and that was a real challenge for me: I think after the giving birth twice, going on multiple tours, all the stuff that I had done, I really got quite burned out after that.
Gwen Stefani
#42. I asked Sunny if she would ever consider dating you. She said she would rather give birth to a porcupine on fire.
Jerry Lawler
#43. Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.
Napoleon Hill
#44. The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.
Rachel Weisz
#46. No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.
Graeme Smith
#47. Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.
Laozi
#48. Step one to preventing PPD is to find time to sleep after giving birth, no matter how euphoric you feel.
Ina May Gaskin
#49. Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.
Frederick Lenz
#50. People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it's more like having a gallbladder operation.
Al Yankovic
#51. There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of achievement for making it through society. It's cementing allegiance to authority at a very young age.
Ayshay
#53. I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth
Paula Radcliffe
#54. Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.
Pope John Paul II
#55. The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.
Richard Carmona
#56. No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one
Jean Paul
#57. Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#58. The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
Albert Camus
#59. Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.
Jane Roberts
#60. Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith
#61. 131/ Writing a novel is like having a baby. I know because I've had both, and the experiences were hellish. By comparison, the torture of the damned - plunged into excrement, boiled in blood, beheaded, set upon by harpies - are like love nips from your yippy little dog.
Kim Addonizio
#63. In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.
Sheila Kitzinger
#64. I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.
Rajneesh
#65. I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.
Esther Hicks
#66. Private Zombie is Squad Fifty-three's very own catcher in the fucking rye. Private Zombie, I think I have a crush on you. You make me weak in the knees. You make me hate my own mother for giving birth to a male child, so now it's impossible for me to have your babies.
Rick Yancey
#67. The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#68. When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
Ezra Miller
#69. 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.
Sarah J. Buckley
#70. Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
Andrei Voznesensky
#71. My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.
Robin Williams
#72. Should women be on any pills besides birth control? We should just give them all sugar pills for everything, they're so suggestible.
Adam Carolla
#73. No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.
Andrea Dworkin
#74. Will I ever again doubt that miracles exist? Not after giving birth to my daughter at 47 without fertility treatments, after surviving breast cancer.
Susan McBride
#75. I spent my days spread-eagle in front of a fan, with bright pink calamine lotion slathered all over my undercarriage. If you walked into my room, you'd think I was giving birth to a Pepto-Bismol baby.
Mamrie Hart
#76. Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.
Bernie Siegel
#77. No, no, no! I am not giving birth backstage at a rock concert. I need to be in a hospital, pumped full of every drug that they can legally give me!
I was so shocked, my only repsonse was,
'Well, he was conceived backstage at a concert, so it's sort of fitting for him to be born at one.
S.C. Stephens
#78. What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
Chanakya
#79. If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.
R. J. Reynolds
#80. In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.
Christian Schwochow
#81. To love and be loved is the very thing our souls scream for from birth and every moment after, the urge to need and be needed as natural as breathing, as life-giving as breath.
Lisa Wingate
#82. Conception is a blessed event.
Fertilization is divine intervention.
The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter.
The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know?
Lee Daniels
#84. We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor
by giving each other motorized tie racks.
Bill McKibben
#85. A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too.
Lucy Liu
#86. There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.
Susan L. Taylor
#87. For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#88. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Jack Whitehall
#89. Squat 300 times a day, you're going to give birth quickly.
Ina May Gaskin
#90. Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.
Jalaja Bonheim
#91. Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.
Joseph Alexander Leighton
#92. Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting.
Anousheh Ansari
#93. Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
St. Jerome
#94. A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a caesarean section though, you'd think at 66 she would have needed some masking tape down there just to stop it falling out.
Frankie Boyle
#95. 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.
Ashlee Simpson
#96. Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.
Joe Eszterhas
#97. My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
Koichi Tanaka
#98. Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
Daisaku Ikeda
#99. 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 - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.
Erich Fromm
#100. Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject ... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.
Washington Allston
