Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

Love dies because its birth was an error.

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.

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

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.

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.

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

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

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.

My body is the fruit of spirits' play.

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

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.

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

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists...Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.

My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me.

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between.

My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname for a child. We named our son Beckett so we could call him Beck - we reverse engineered. And then after he was born and I saw the name on the birth certificate I realized Beckett was a really pretentious name, way too literary. Luckily he's grown into it. We nearly named my second son Dashiell. Can you imagine? Beckett and Dashiell. It would have been a disaster of pretentiousness.

My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

Never loan your car to anyone to whom you've given birth.

Never lend your car keys to someone you gave birth to.

natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

Nobody asked you about being born, nobody is going to ask you when the time comes for you to be taken away. Then why be worried? Birth happened to you; death will happen to you; who are you to come in between?

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

nothing is slower than the true birth of a man

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Obama is the closest thing to a Latino that we have. Barack. Everybody wants to see his birth certificate too.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures.