Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

I gave up before birth.

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

I have been vain since birth.

I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.

I have not created any characters nor have I changed my name. The last time I did, the band turned 20, and I said, "I'm going to stop changing my names. I'll present myself as Rubén Albarrán." During that time, I was visiting certain communities and one of them baptized me with my birth name. So I said, "OK, I've received it, now I will use it," and I have. If another one comes, then it will come, but it hasn't arrived yet and I'm fine for now.

I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to increase vaginal engorgement as the baby emerges.

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Innovations, which are the births of time.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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

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?.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

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.