Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.

I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.

I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.

I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

I'm going to be the most competitive birth-giver ever.

I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

Innovations, which are the births of time.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

I say nothing, because I was able to get Barack Obama to produce [birth certificate]. He should have produced it a long time before. I say nothing.

I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

I started a writing class, not in service of writing a script or writing anything specific. I've just really been enjoying that, and oddly the group, not by design, but it just happened to be all women, and there were three women who gave birth this fall while we were all in class, and there's just something really great about getting to know these women through their stories and what they're writing about.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

It is clear that Americans have a right to birth control.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate had an expiration date on it.

It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.