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Quotes About Births

Prayer Lord, I have spent much of my life running from pain and loss, medicating my pain and quickly moving on to the next project––the new urgent demand. I ask for the grace to embrace all of life—the joys and the sorrows, the deaths and the births, the old and the new. In Jesus' name, amen.
~ Peter Scazzero
India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.
~ Bill Gates
In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.
~ Mechai Viravaidya
For the first time in US history, more than half of children born to mothers under thirty were born outside marriage.
~ Warren Farrell PhD
Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.
~ Henry Vaughan
Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!
~ Philip Massinger
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.
~ Edmund Morgan
So we children must be thankful to the imperious Dr. Young for making it possible for our parents to meet and our subsequent births.
~ Katherine Paterson
The naked, poor, and mangled Peace,Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births.
~ William Shakespeare
The headman nodded, then asked: "So is this is the cause of rebirth, Sir?" "It is. An individual may have to take an indefinite number of births to harvest the effects of all his latent impressions, and then, in each fresh lifetime there is further action, which sows further seeds of karma".
~ Alistair Shearer
I have been told that I have been played at - my music's been played at funerals, deaths, births, weddings. Weddings, I find very surprising.
~ Patty Griffin
Lord Shiva invented the 84 lakhs yoga postures. He derived these postures just by observing the evolution and the journey of the soul in 84 lakh possible births. They are linked to the 84 ragas, 84 primary yoga postures, and the 84 primary nadis.
~ Amit Ray
But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it…love has been rosy red in it…births have been here…all the passions…all the hopes. It is full of wraths.
~ L.M. Montgomery
What Yudhishtira learnt—the point of existence is not to accumulate merit, but to attain wisdom. We have to ask ourselves—why do we do what we do? When we truly accept the answer, we break free from the cycle of births and deaths,
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
point of existence is not to accumulate merit, but to attain wisdom. We have to ask ourselves—why do we do what we do? When we truly accept the answer, we break free from the cycle of births and deaths, and discover the realm beyond Swarga, Vaikuntha, where there is peace forever.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Mijnheer Smith: Eén ding begrijp ik niet. Waarom zetten ze in de krant onder de burgerlijke stand altijd wèl de leeftijd van mensen die gestorven zijn en nooit die van pasgeborenen! Dat is onzin.
~ Eugene Ionesco
If births continued and deaths were severely curtailed, overpopulation would soon cause devastating effects.
~ Douglas E. Richards
There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
~ Sam Yagan
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
~ Barbara Demick
Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
~ Nathan Deal
I cry at births and not at funerals.
~ Gavin Esler
And yet that hardness brings out the softness in us all," said the redhead, "the soul in us that makes us cry at births and weddings and wakes and those sad times when the pebbles of the gravedigger dance upon the coffin lid. Sure, and it makes us more human. Yes, this emergency room is not a mean bad place, now, is it?
~ Samuel Shem