Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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.

Innovations, which are the births of time.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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'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.

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!

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

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

I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

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

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

I was born in a Negro town.

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

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

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

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