Birth Quotes

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

~ E. T. A. Hoffmann

I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

~ Constance Marie

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

~ Jock Sturges

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

~ Chanakya

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

~ Cesare Lombroso

It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

~ Cybill Shepherd

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

~ Denis Villeneuve

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

~ Emily Oster

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

~ Donald Trump

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

~ Bela Lugosi

Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.

~ Robert Delaunay

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

~ Mohsin Hamid

The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside. That we should no longer be victims of the birth lottery. That no one should be stuck in a poor place where they don't have a job simply because of an accident of birth.

~ Leila Janah

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

~ Nicole Appleton

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

~ Dale Dauten

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

~ Madeleine M. Kunin

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

~ John Linder

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

~ Robert Neelly Bellah

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

~ Al Franken

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

~ George Mcgovern

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

~ John Clayton

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

~ Ted Cruz

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

~ John Linder

I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

~ Sarah Jessica Parker