Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

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

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 was born in a Negro town.

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

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

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

I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

Let your monkey do it.

Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of the life of a century, also told as if a day. Beginning with Julio's birth in 1900 and ending with his death in 2000, the graphic novel touches on most of the major events that shaped the 20th century.

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

Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?

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.

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.

Luck cannot change birth.

Love dies because its birth was an error.

Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.

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

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 of us know more about the workings of our car than we do the reproductive cycle.

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

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

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

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.

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

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

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

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.

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.

My body is the fruit of spirits' play.

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 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 life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.