Quotes About Birth

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

In South Africa, it is different. When you are born not even your father knows what is going to happen in your life.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

I was born in Spain.

We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.

The perfect body protects its owner from disease, gives birth to amazing new people and stops your bones from falling out. The end.

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.

My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every

Then a genius has been born!

Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of the earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don't be like the ingrate who got a castle as a present and worried about the mildew in the bathroom. Stop looking the gift horse in the mouth—remember that you are a Black Swan.

Assume that you live in a town with two hospitals—one large, the other small. On a given day 60 percent of those born in one of the two hospitals are boys. Which hospital is it likely to be?

The distribution was massively skewed, with the bulk of the deaths coming from birth and childhood mortality.

O Father in Heaven—if Thou art still my Father—what is this being which I have brought into the world?

think of it this way, he said It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?

You look spectacluar, Cam.' She smoothes out his shirt and straightens his tie. 'You look like the shining star you are!' 'Let's hope I don't give birth to complex elements.' She looks at him quizzically. 'Supernova,' he says. 'If I'm a shining star, let's hope I don't blow up.

I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give birth to something unthinkable.

Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency.