Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.

From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth.

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? I bet Obama is sorry now that he spent all that money on the new birth certificate.

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.

I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth.

Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

I am tremendously moved anytime anyone gives birth to something from deep within themselves that is pure and authentic.

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

I became a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a solution for the most pressing problems of our times - a solution that begins at the source.

I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.