Quotes About Birth

Never for a second had Keri ever thought she'd be envious of a woman who was a bundle of insecurities—whose career consisted of laundry and carpooling, and who had given birth to four walking, talking weapons of mass destruction.

But Penny was born perfect and copper-bright, just like her name. From the minute she came home from the hospital, she was a really happy baby. Mom truly did carry a little bundle of joy into the house. But

I love you, Robert Tate." Bud fingered her ring. "I love you, too. I think I'm going to rest now. Promise you won't go anywhere without me." "I promise." He closed his eyes. Holly lay facing him, burning every nuance of his misery into her brain. She was determined to remember, when she was in labor giving birth to their first child, that, for the love of his woman, he'd been the first to bear pain.

The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged.

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves.

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time.

It's one thing to be bitter about the circumstances of your birth, but another to drill your bitterness into the head of someone going through a rough time.

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.

Bein' born is craps, he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. How we live is poker.

Bein' born is craps. How we live is poker . Mamma played a bad hand well.

Don't bother me. I've just been born.

Hippocrates took the no doubt breakfast-inspired view that the egg was simply something for the developing human to eat. He further speculated that as soon as the egg was all eaten up, then the infant would hatch: birth as a sort of grocery-shopping trip.)

The Virtual Birth Center tells us how to prepare Placenta Cocktail (8 oz. V-8, 2 ice cubes, ½ cup carrot, and ¼ cup raw placenta, puréed in a blender for 10 seconds), Placenta Lasagna, and Placenta Pizza.

I am by birth a Genevese

when I would account to myself for the birth of that passion, which afterwards ruled my destiny, I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.

There was one thing, however, that I didn't know: evil is a gift received at birth. There's no acquiring it. Those of us who have not come to this world armed with spurs and fangs are losers in every combat.