Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

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

Innovations, which are the births of time.

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

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

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 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.

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

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?.

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.

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

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

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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'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.

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

I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

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 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 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 born in a Negro town.

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.