Quotes About Birth

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

The major sin is the sin of being born.

the baby must be either a boy or girl — this much, at any rate, was clear.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I was born," the Mouse said. "I must die. I am suffering. Help me. There, I just wrote your book for you.

Every man is born an Aristotelian or a Platonist. I do not think it possible that anyone born an Aristotelian can become a Platonist; and I am sure that no born Platonist can ever change into an Aristotelian…. The one considers reason a quality, or attribute; the other considers it a power.

In the moments of labor and birth, all the forces of the universe are flowing through a woman's body.

Do not DOUBT because Difficult Obstacles Ultimately Birth Tough Soldiers.

Oh, yes," Anna said. "I would like to know what measures you advocate." He stood a little straighter. "The first problem is the influx of the worst of Europe. The moral and intellectual dregs must be turned away. If such a policy had been put in place at the right time, Michael and Dylan Joyce would have been born in Ireland, and feeding them would not fall to us.

It was the most difficult problem they faced. A problem without a solution, and repercussions that were all too real: at one extreme another child might be born into a family of six or eight or more, living in a single room without a window or a privy. On the other extreme were the midwives and doctors who might be sent to prison or harassed until nothing remained of their careers. One

It doesn't matter whether I was born in a mess of blood and goo, or whether I was shaped lovingly and carefully in a workroom with chisel and hammer.

I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.

There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

I, woman, give birth: and this time to myself.

The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.

In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.