Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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

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 human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

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

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

nothing is slower than the true birth of a man

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

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.

Only dreams give birth to change.

Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then the birth will be conscious, because the death is the one side and the birth is the other side of the same coin.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

Oxytocin is the hormone of love. We share it when we have a good conversation, we share it when we make love, and when we hug, and BIRTH is the biggest brightest time of rich oxytocin-sharing.

Peace on earth begins with birth.

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.