Quotes About Birth

Birth our night into dayAnd bathe it clean, So that beloved things can glowTogether in a litter of light.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

What do women know of war? Tucker had flung at her the other day. You are never called upon to kill. Sonia slowly walks away from the small light of the kitchen, headed toward the car. No, we are never called upon, she thinks. We are merely conscripted at birth.

When Constance was born, Aunt Glo named her after the dormitory she lived in at college: Constance Hall.

Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh.

La noche que naciste, las estrellas cayeron. El día que nos conocimos, cayo un rayo. Mi presente, mi futuro. Mi esperanza, mi plegaria, mi destino,

The very beginning.

I was born fussy, liked cleanness and orderliness about me and had already been thrown too much into the midst of shiftlessness. The socialists and communists I had seen and heard talk nearly all struck me as men who had no sense of life at all.

In the lives of working people the dramatic and vita moments of death and birth are passed over in silence.

There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Someone has said, When you are born into this world there are at least two of you, but going out you are on your own. Death happens to every one of us, yet it remains the most solitary of human experiences, one that separates rather than unites us.

You're beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.

The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room.

Here are wonders upon wonders: the Strong One is weak; the Infinite One lies in a manger; the Prince of Life dies; the Crucified One lives; the Humiliated One is glorified. Meekness and majesty, indeed! Behold, then, your newborn King! Come and worship Him!