Quotes About Birth

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

There are many reasons why babies cry when they are born, and one of them is the sudden separation from the world of pure dreams, where all things are made of enchantment, and where there is no suffering.

Her legend, which would sprout a thousand hallucinations, had been born in our midst – born of stories and rumours which, in time, would become some of the most extravagant realities of our lives.

I was born not just because I had conceived a notion to stay, but because in between my coming and going the great cycles of time had finally tightened around my neck. I prayed for laughter, a life without hunger. I was answered with paradoxes. It remains an enigma how it came to be that I was born smiling.

A time for every occupation under heaven. A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted; a time for tears, a time for laughter; a time for mourning, a time for dancing; a time for searching, a time for losing; a time for loving, a time for hating.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Todo el barrio se mueve; pero calla a la vez. Mil emociones se chocan; mil dolores son ahogados; mil lazos de amor y familia se quiebran; mil almas vuelan; pero todo esto se verifica en silencio, en medio de un movimiento automático y vertiginoso. Todo el barrio se mueve; pero calla a la vez. Sólo un ser (¡fatal excepción!) descansa y ronca en esta noche de muerte: es la partera. En tales noches no nace nadie.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

When you are born you are done for, in the matter of your temperament. The colour of your eyes may alter, generally does; but your temperament won't. It will show itself in your last breath.

Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born?

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie - father of the future Alex Dumas - was born on February 26, 1714, in the Norman province of Caux, a region of rolling dairy farms that hung above great chalk cliffs on the northwest coast of France.

It might help to know that in Afghanistan citizenship papers and birth certificates and the official registration of births and deaths are the exotica of faraway places. One is born 'in the time of the pomegranate harvest' or some such thing or one's birthdate is recorded as the first day of the year if you are even aware of the year you were born.

I just believe pregnant women need a familiar face, someone who isn't related to them who they may have all this emotional past with, to be there, just for them, during the birth.

I have a very good relation with rain. When I was born in Orissa, there were severe floods. Even now it rains on my birthday.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

I'm a Hindu and a Nepali by birth.

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

I was born in Homestead, Florida.

Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'

My father brought a basketball to the hospital when I was born, and he already had it embedded in his head that I would be a ball player.

My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't show up until finals week. I brought my books to the hospital and didn't think anything of it. That is what a father is supposed to do.