Birth Quotes

Music is the love child birthed from the boundless freedom found in dreams and the rapturous opposition faced in life; for that, we should be so grateful for both the light and the dark.

~ Dave Matthes

Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars

~ Rivera Sun

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

~ Félix J. Palma

Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my body from a source I cannot see or understand. My whole being comes from an unseen, unknown nurturer. By that nurturer I am totally loved and protected, and that love is forever. It does not end when I am precipitated out of the safe waters of the womb into the unsafe world. It will. It end when I breathe my last, mortal breath. That love manifested itself joyously in the creation of the universe, became particular for us in Jesus, and will show itself most gloriously in the Second Coming. We need not fear.

~ Madeleine L'engle

I can see her, chin to chest, straining to push Junior out, and Junior snagging on her insides, grabbing hold of what he caught on to try to stay inside her, but instead he pulled it out with him when he was born.

~ Jesmyn Ward

Just like a human foetus, while in the uterus, retrieves and assimilates the components that allow its physical body to become whole and fit to emerge into the outer reality, the third dimension serves the purpose of shamanic pregnancy, which is about retrieving and integrating the fragmented pieces of the soul, finally giving birth to the multidimensional self.

~ Franco Santoro

They didn’t fly out of my body, I actually had to push the little fuckers out.

~ Sonia Clement

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

~ Denis Waitley

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

~ Stendhal

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

~ David Attenborough

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

~ David Friedrich Strauss

Labor gives birth to ideas.

~ Jim Rohn

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

~ Jules Verne

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

~ Paul Davies

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

~ Karen Salmansohn

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

~ Christopher Fry

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

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

~ T. S. Eliot

Birth was the death of him.

~ Samuel Beckett

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

~ Charles De Montesquieu

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

~ Ani Difranco

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

~ Arlo Guthrie

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

~ Joseph Hall

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

~ Jacob K. Javits

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

~ G. Stanley Hall

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

~ Ben Shapiro

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

~ Sandra Bullock

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

~ Sandra Bullock

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

~ Émile Durkheim

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

~ Joan Rivers

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

~ James Cromwell

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

~ David Bowie

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

~ Nick Nolte

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

~ Jacques Derrida

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

~ Thales

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

~ Sigmund Freud