Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

What do Obama and God have in common? Neither has a birth certificate. How do they differ? God does not think he's Obama.

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

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.

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.

When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.

When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.

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

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

Why would you train an instrument of destruction? (Jericho) We all choose our destinies. Our birth doesn’t dictate our future unless we allow it. (Acheron)

Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

Yogi Bear - there's everything before Yogi Bear and there's everything after Yogi Bear. Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of you and your existence that is incommunicable; you die alone, the experience is yours alone, you might have a dozen spectators who love you, but your isolation, from birth to death, is never fully penetrated.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

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

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.

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

You might be a redneck if your birth announcement included the word rug rat.