Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I was born in a Negro town.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.

Love dies because its birth was an error.

Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

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?

Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.

Luck cannot change birth.

Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

Many of us know more about the workings of our car than we do the reproductive cycle.

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.