Quotes About Birth

invero gli dèi mi avevano fatto dono del privilegio più grande che mente umana possa concepire, la sublime libertà di odiare quelli che ci hanno messo al mondo

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time ... I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me.

As soon as you are born, you're given a name, a religion, a nationality and a race. You spend the rest of your life defining and defending a fictional identity.

Doesn't that bother you?" Kaladin asked. "That you might be a creation of human perception?" "You're a creation of your parents. Who cares how we were born? I can think. That's good enough.

Syl used to think human children came out through the nose in a particularly violent sneeze

foetus. In the beginning her wailing would be tolerated for a short while

I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.

silence remains indispensable today as it was in the past. The Word of God is born out of the eternal silence of God, and it is to this Word out of silence that we want to be witnesses.

Without reading the word, silence becomes stale, and without silence, the word loses its re-creative power. The word leads to silence and silence to the word. The word is born in silence, and silence is the deepest response to the word.

Don't be afraid. Don't run off. Trust that Christ will be born in that place.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever At the bottom of my dream.

Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather.

Siempre he deplorado no ser tan sabio como lo era el día en que nací

That had been the real beginning—the beginning of everything else.

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.

They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

I detest all books which run chronologically, which commence at the cradle and end with the grave. Even life doesn't run that way, much as people think it does. Life only commences at the hour of spiritual birth - which may be at eighteen or at forty-seven. And death is never the goal - but life! more life!

And inevitably there always crept into our discussions the figure of Whitman, that one lone figure which America has produced in the course of her brief life. In Whitman the whole American scene comes to life, her past and her future, her birth and her death. Whatever there is of value in America Whitman has expressed, and there is nothing more to be said.

Everybody is giving birth to something - everybody but the lesbian in the upper tier. Her head is uptilted, her throat wide open; she is all alert and tingling with the shower of sparks that burst from the radium symphony. Jupiter is piercing her ears.

De wiegen der beschaving zijn de verpestende riolen van de wereld, het knekelhuis waarin de stinkende baarmoeders hun bloederige pakjes vlees en been toevertrouwen.