Top 100 Birth The Quotes
#1. Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.
Grant-Lee Phillips
#2. If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital.
Marsden Wagner
#4. Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
Walter Scott
#5. 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
#6. But later, by the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years was washed away, and a light from above - serene and pure - was infused into my reconciled heart. Then through the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth restored me to a new man.
Cyprian
#7. Emptiness itself can birth the fullness of grace beacuse in the emptiness we have the opportunity to turn to God, ...
Ann Voskamp
#8. Pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...
Dan Simmons
#9. The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.
Martin Luther
#10. Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.
Matisyahu
#11. Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.
Hermann Hesse
#12. 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
#13. Jorum had called to the boys to come watch the miracle of birth. The "miracle of birth" was actually pretty disgusting, Arthas thought. He
Christie Golden
#14. Sharing the joys like Rose's birth the other day - that was good; but I am here for you in times of fear and sorrow, too. Come to me." He reached over and took her hands, pulling her closer. "Come to me, good or bad, right or wrong, day or night. Promise me.
Cathy Marie Hake
#15. Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
#16. Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
John Milton
#17. Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.
Euginia Herlihy
#18. One cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.
Michel Odent
#19. When a burning is announced, the taverns off Smithfield Square order extra barrels of ale, but when the person to be executed is a woman and one of noble birth, the ale comes by the cartload.
Nancy Bilyeau
#22. We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.
Mark Helprin
#23. Even at birth the soul comes to its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own purity and, impurity, its strength and weakness. Men
James Allen
#24. The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months following the birth. The childbearing is a time of adjustments and fierce emotions. The childbearing year touches every season.
Susun Weed
#25. Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels against it, but from... the greater inner law that has left behind its small birth, the narrow realm of personal outlook, for the sake of renewal and rebirth.
Max Zeller
#26. It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#27. Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world. Many a one never becomes a human-being, but remains a frog, lizard, or ant. Many a one is a human-being above and a fish below.
Hermann Hesse
#28. The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.
Jack Kerouac
#29. I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
#30. Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.
Eric Liu
#31. Everywhere, as we go about our small business, we must discern the fingerprints of the gigantic plan, the orderly and inexorable routine with neither beginning nor end, in which death is but a preface to another birth, and birth the certain forerunner of another death.
Christopher Morley
#32. A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.
Joel Bakan
#33. God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
George Herbert
#34. Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.
John Piper
#35. It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. 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.
John Denver
#37. The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children
Richard Dawkins
#38. Can you remember the womb? How, in the moments before birth, The lines were washed from the map That told the route you'd come?
Terrance Hayes
#39. 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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#40. If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed.
Tom Althouse
#41. Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.
Lionel Blue
#42. On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
Maya Angelou
#43. Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.
Narendra Modi
#44. Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music.
Sammy Kershaw
#45. I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind of warped women's minds into thinking we don't know how to birth and we need doctors and epidurals and Pitocin.
Sarah Shahi
#46. I hope we shall ... crush in it's birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.
Thomas Jefferson
#47. Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.
Antal Szerb
#48. So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other;
Lao-Tzu
#49. Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.
Kim Hyesoon
#50. I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#51. Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
John Donne
#52. In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread,
Till thou return unto the ground; for thou
Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth,
For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
John Milton
#53. It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
Gregory Maguire
#54. If we could see ourselves ... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.
Immanuel Kant
#55. The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
Ptolemy
#56. From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.
Frederick Lenz
#57. Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.
Henry B. Eyring
#58. The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
Annie Besant
#59. upload a recent photo", some people interpreted that to mean anytime after the birth of Christ.
Christie Walker Bos
#60. 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.
Socrates
#62. Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.
Henry David Thoreau
#63. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
Robert Jordan
#64. No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.
Rhea Perlman
#65. We all knew where the goop originated and could have defended ourselves, but the origin of the fusillade doubled as the center of the action. Once the baby's scalp protruded, we all hunkered down and braced ourselves.
David Z. Hirsch
#66. Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter.
Margaret Atwood
#67. We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.
Shirley Franklin
#68. Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John Milton
#69. Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.
Jay Carney
#70. The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#71. Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.
Eric Chaisson
#72. Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.
John Flavel
#73. Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#74. The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
Chiang Kai-shek
#75. I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#76. The atoms in it must be used over and over again; thus the death of one thing becomes necessary for the birth of another.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#77. Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.
Phar West Nagle
#78. I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.
Eric Cantor
#79. [After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can't be afraid of, 'Oh, I'm out of the public, then I'm going to have to make a comeback.' It's ridiculous. No.
Jennifer Lopez
#80. Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.
Ellen Lupton
#81. Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.
Erykah Badu
#82. I can absolutely assure you that birth is nothing like holding an ice cube in your hand for a minute and breathing through the "pain.
Cassi Clark
#83. I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
Rachel McAdams
#84. I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.
Michele Bachmann
#85. There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all! ... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
Thomas Carlyle
#86. The first rule for all women to know and never forget is that Carpathian males do not share their lifemates. Tour brother has much to answer for that this was not drilled into you since birth. It was is job to prepare you for my coming.
Christine Feehan
#87. What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
Tullian Tchividjian
#88. Everyone was going crazy, like they'd just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.
Nicole Williams
#89. It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey. A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot.
Bob Dylan
#90. Something was nagging at me that I was trying to resist. Was it then or was it later that the thought came to me: if God really does exist, and is not just a myth, it must have a consequence for the whole of life. It was not a comfortable thought.
Jennifer Worth
#91. don't fast, I will never go on any pilgrimage, and I drink wine - and what's more, the air that makes it better. To cry out that I'm free, and that God is a question, not an answer, and that I want to meet him alone, at my death as at my birth.
Kamel Daoud
#92. In breaking news, the sky. The earth. Life. Existence as an unchanging plain with horizons of birth and death in the faint distance.
Joseph Fink
#93. Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
Richard Mitchell
#94. I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth. The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy. The word love means something completely different now.
Beyonce Knowles
#95. This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime
John F. Kennedy
#96. The moon makes love
to the ocean
and
in this holy conception it gives birth
to a little tide.
A.P. Sweet
#97. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
Rumi
#98. When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
Emil Cioran
#99. If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
John Aubrey
#100. The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.
Iyanla Vanzant
