Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

I say nothing, because I was able to get Barack Obama to produce [birth certificate]. He should have produced it a long time before. I say nothing.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

I started a writing class, not in service of writing a script or writing anything specific. I've just really been enjoying that, and oddly the group, not by design, but it just happened to be all women, and there were three women who gave birth this fall while we were all in class, and there's just something really great about getting to know these women through their stories and what they're writing about.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

It is clear that Americans have a right to birth control.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate had an expiration date on it.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.

I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

Ive always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

I've learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.

I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana

I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

I was assigned boy at birth but I have always known I was a girl.

I was born in a Negro town.

I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

I was the one that got him [Barack Obama] to produce the birth certificate. And I think I did a good job.

Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?

Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of the life of a century, also told as if a day. Beginning with Julio's birth in 1900 and ending with his death in 2000, the graphic novel touches on most of the major events that shaped the 20th century.

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

Let your monkey do it.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.