Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Conflict begins at the moment of birth.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!

Creating your own reality is the richest gift you received at birth.

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Death is birth into the realm of the spirit.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides.

Donald Trump showed his birth certificate to reporters. Who cares about his birth certificate? I want to know if that thing on his head has had its vaccinations.

Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot.

Donald Trump says that he will not run for president. You know why? He can't find his birth certificate.

Donald Trump has told me that he is proud of the fact that he finally got Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

Fear can be overcome only by Faith.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

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

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.

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.

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