Quotes About Birth

We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.'

When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

From conception to delivery, it has been a great experience. I was determined to give a natural birth.

It feels like I've been singing since I was born, and I have so many great memories with my family and friends centred around music.

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

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

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means "God is with us." —Matthew 1:23

Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign of King Herod. —Matthew 2:1

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished' * --Czeslaw Milosz. * And, I might add, if the family isn't finished, then the writer is.

He knew that he had been born in a sick country, a country now intent on spreading its disease to others through the social media channels and under the cover of night--its true gift of the moment.

But the poem was born elsewhere, and need not stay. Like the wild geese of the Arctic it heads home, far above the borders, where most things cannot cross.

The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.

The second came not as they are ordinarily born—that is, head foremost as a man climbs from a lower place into a high—but feet foremost as a man lets himself down into a lower place. His grandmother was holding his brother, not knowing that two were to be born, and for that reason his feet beat the ground for a time with no one to draw him forth. Because of this his mother called him John Sandwalker.

Alas the day that gave me birth! Worse then my prison is the endless earth, now I am doomed eternally to dwell, not in purgatory, but in hell.

Die Welt ist das Chaos. Das Nichts ist der zu gebärende Weltgott.

The nature of finite things as such is to have the seed of passing away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.

It's unwise to be born; it's unwise to be married; it's unwise to live; and it's unwise to die. - Buhon

It is said that Indians were sometimes named for the first thing they saw when they were born. Makes you wonder why there aren't more Indians named Hairy Pussy, doesn't it?

The best horse will win in spite of pedigree, my boy. You remember Napoleon's mot—Je suis un ancêtre said Sir Hugo, who habitually undervalued birth, as men after dining well often agree that the good of life is distributed with wonderful equality.

Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster's daughter.