Quotes About Babies Being Born

#1. You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

Susan Maushart

#3. Zebra babies can flat-out run within an hour of being born, because if they can't, they're dead. We were like zebras, so poor we didn't know how poor we were, and tough and independent because there wasn't any other way to be.

Willie Parker

#4. there really were some babies who were better off not being born. Like

Jodi Picoult

#5. SAN Diego slid from July into August like a baker slides a fresh sheet of cookies into the oven - quick and smooth, with the new panful of days set to cook up crisp.

Eileen Wilks

#6. I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.

Aimee Mullins

#7. Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.

Stephen Colbert

#8. We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

Kenzaburo Oe

#9. Money is a kind of poetry.

Wallace Stevens

#10. You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

Sandra Dallas

#11. Successful people are the one's that create their own path, not follow someone else's.

Behdad Sami

#12. It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.

Chris Hadfield

#13. To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born,

Michel Odent

#14. Excuse me, Tex, the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn't want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits.

Eoin Colfer

#15. When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

Vasily Grossman

#16. Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth.

Melina Marchetta

#17. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet doesn't really need all of us to produce more babies.

Caitlin Moran

#18. The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Tom Hanks