Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

There are of course economic advantages to having Turkey as a member of the European club. It's a developing country with a large, reasonably well-trained labor force at a time when the European birth rate is dropping at a catastrophic rate and Europe is graying. It offers opportunities for greater trade and investment to the benefit of both Turkey and Europe.

There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

There are no illegitimate babies.

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.

There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to calling him Untitled Baby Project.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new

The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

The violet sea longs for the birth of gods, for to be born here is an unspeakable feast, a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.

The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order—the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.

The world will be changed by western women.

The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.

Those who die relearn or remember The secrets of life that they forgot at birth.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.