Best 1078 quotes in «birth quotes» category

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

I don't know where [Obama is from] I don't think he's from where they issue birth certificates – I think he's from Hell.

If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.

I gave up before birth.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

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

If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital.

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

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

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 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 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 been vain since birth.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.