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Quotes About Birth

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
~ Adrienne Rich
In truth, we are life itself. When we see and perceive that we are the totality of life, we are no longer afraid of it; we no longer feel afraid of birth, life, and death. But until we see that, we will see life as intimidating, as a barrier we somehow have to get through.
~ Adyashanti
Imagine if you took it on in yourself to reorient your life trajectory toward your divinity. Your divinity: I so loved the world, that I gave it all of myself. Imagine your birth as an act of pouring yourself forth into life as a loving means of redemption. Imagine your human life as what you have come to redeem. And when you've fully awakened to all of it, then you've fully redeemed your human incarnation.
~ Adyashanti
There is a scripture in the Buddhist tradition called the Heart Sutra, which says that there is no birth, no old age, and no death, and no end to birth, old age, or death. This is a very important part of the sutra. There is no birth, no old age, and no death. This is true from the absolute point of view. But unless we've also realized, simultaneously, that there is no end to birth, old age, and death, then our realization is not complete.
~ Adyashanti
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
~ Aeschylus
Night, o my mother, from whose womb I took my being.
~ Aeschylus
Marriage, especially at my age, is not to be undertaken without full–er–consideration. Equality of birth, similarity of tastes, general suitability, and the same religious creed–all these things are necessary and the pros and cons have to be weighed and considered.
~ Agatha Christie
Trumpets! Lightnings! The earth trembles! But into the Virgin's womb thou didst descent with noiseless tread.
~ Agathias Scholasticus
If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birthing.
~ Agnes Sallet Von Tannenberg
We are not the Body or Mind that takes Birth. We must Embodied Creatures, We are the soul. To Unite with the Divine is Our Ultimate Goal.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
What is our Purpose of Life on earth? Why this Life? Why this birth? We must find out why we are born... And achieve our Purpose before death blows its horn.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
The concept of the trichiliocosm is closely linked with Buddhist theories about time and human destiny. Buddhist thought is generally clouded with pessimism, and this is nowhere more obvious than in its concept of time. The notion of an eternal round of birth and death is an intolerable thought.
~ Akira Sadakata
A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence.
~ Alan Dean Foster
We were made at the motel.
~ Alan Gratz
rush as she raced through the streets of Manhattan to track down the scumbags who were doing their best to add some spice to an otherwise bland shift. But after the birth of her
~ Alan Jacobson
As soon as you were born you were captured by fresh air that you screamed against the minute you came out. Then you were roped in by a factory, had a machine slung around your neck, and then you were hooked up by the arse with a wife.
~ Alan Sillitoe
I was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire of light and commerce that the adults called the Golden Hour, for a reason I did not yet grasp.
~ Alastair Reynolds
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
~ Loretta Young
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
~ Meryl Streep
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
~ Christine Lagarde
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
~ J. Paul Getty
I was born in 1937, in Yakima, Washington, the oldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. My sister Jenepher was born in 1939 and my brother Peter in 1940. My parents had moved to Yakima from Seattle to open a small restaurant, The Lucas Ice Creamery.
~ Robert Lucas, Jr.
I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.
~ Isabella Rossellini
I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ, and became, later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop.
~ Jean-Marie Lehn