Quotes About Birth

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.

Europe was born with Jean Monnet but then was progressively transformed.

The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.

The fact that I stick up for women doesn't mean that I think all men are rapists. But that's lost somewhere in translation. Obviously I don't think that. I married one! I gave birth to two of them.

We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna

war is merely a general term, a collective noun for so many individual stories. War is every individual, it is what happened to that individual, how it happened, how it changed that person's life. For her, war is this child she had to give birth to.

A birth usually has more consequences than a death.

But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.

Loki's relations with Svadilfari (a powerful stallion) were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt. It was grey and had eight feet, and this is the best horse among gods and men. (The horse's name was Slepnir.)

The triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble true birth.

the realm we are in—samsara—is an ocean of unbearable suffering. There is one way, and one way only, out of samsara's ceaseless round of birth and death, which is the path to liberation.

En la mayoría de nosotros, no obstante, el karma y las emociones negativas oscurecen la capacidad de ver nuestra propia naturaleza intrínseca y la naturaleza de la realidad. En consecuencia, nos aferramos a la felicidad y al sufrimiento como si fueran reales, y con nuestras acciones ignorantes y carentes de habilidad seguimos sembrando las semillas de nuestro siguiente nacimiento.

human realm, where you will experience the suffering of birth, old age, sickness, and death

La naissance d'un homme est la naissance de sa douleur. Plus il vit longtemps et plus il devient stupide, parce que son angoisse d'éviter une mort inévitable s'intensifie sans relâche. Quelle amertume ! Il vit pour ce qui est toujours hors de portée ! Sa soif de survie dans le futur le rend incapable de vivre dans le présent.