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Quotes About Birth

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
~ R. D. Laing
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.
~ Heinrich Heine
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.
~ Bob Hope
I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world.
~ Demetri Martin
Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.
~ Lisa Gardner
There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
~ Emile M. Cioran
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
~ Hazel Scott
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
Que je n'avais jamais vu ma mère dans le cas d'être folle. Elle l'était. De naissance. De sang. Elle n'était pas malade de sa folie, elle la vivait comme la santé.
~ Marguerite Duras
A]nd death is perhaps nothing more than giving birth to a soul.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
El verdadero lugar del nacimiento es aquel donde por primera vez nos miramos con una mirada inteligente; mis primeras patrias fueron los libros. Y, en menor grado, las escuelas.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Anton and I went to see her in her office in Soho. It was less than a fortnight before I gave birth to Ema so getting me there was a huge undertaking, like crating and transporting a sick elephant.
~ Marian Keyes
The past is carried to us on simple things—a written page, a spoon, a glove, a bowl of water: carried by the souls who touched them, those plain relics emanate, a language, freed of time, language without cadence—mute and eerie as the sound a granite planet makes giving birth to mountains, coursing its way through space.
~ Marianne Wiggins
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
~ Marianne Williamson
El propósito de nuestra vida es dar nacimiento a lo mejor que llevamos dentro.
~ Marianne Williamson
Cristo interior es un ser que ha vuelto a nacer, cuyo padre es Dios y cuya madre es nuestra humanidad, que está ahí para expresar el potencial divino que hay dentro de cada uno de nosotros.
~ Marianne Williamson
Mary's was a virgin birth, and the word virgin means a woman unto herself. The actualized woman is powerful unto herself and gives birth to things divine. Today we have the chance to give birth to a healed and transformed world.
~ Marianne Williamson
That's sheer luck too: luck of the draw of birth: century, continent, nation, section, sex, color, socioeconomic sector.
~ Marilyn French
He was going on about baptism. A birth and a death and a marriage, he said. A touch of water and these children are given the whole of life.
~ Marilynne Robinson
But is it her fault that she was born where she was born???
~ Marjane Satrapi
the sense that there is an accessible vitality, present from birth, underlying our accrued personalities.
~ Mark Epstein
Mama is thirty-seven weeks pregnant.
~ Mark Haddon