Quotes About Birth

If a baby was going to be so unloved, why would God want it brought into the world?

I remember thinking, if a baby was going to be so unloved, why would God want it brought into the world?

This birth thing. And this death thing. Each one had it's turn. We entered alone and we left alone. And most of us lived lonely and frightened and incomplete lives. An incomparable sadness descended up on me. Seeing all that life that must die. Seeing all that life that would first turn to hate, to dementia, to neuroses, to stupidity, to fear, to murder, to nothing - nothing in life and nothing in death.

I had read that more people committed suicide on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day than at any other time. The holiday had little or nothing to do with the Birth of Christ, apparently.

Mi sono sempre piaciute le gambe. E' stata la prima cosa che ho visto quando sono nato. Ma allora stavo cercando di uscire. Da quel momento in poi ho sempre tentato di andare nell'altra direzione, ma con fortuna piuttosto scarsa.

You realize how many people there are on this earth without a chance? Because of where and how they were born? Because they had no education? Because they never had anything and never have and nobody gives a fuck . -South of No North

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home.

LORD, as we celebrate your birth today, I praise you for coming to earth so that we who believe in you might know your forgiveness and experience your love. You are Emmanuel, God with us! Although as mere humans we are like a breath of air, our days like a passing shadow, you reached down from on high and brought us out of darkness into your marvelous light.

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. —William Blake

I dont want to die Then you shouldnt have been born

The pain in my body could not match the pain her cry surfaced in my heart. They cleaned her, weighed her, wrapped her, and whisked her away. And it was then that I realized the much-greater pain is not in giving birth but in releasing your own child.

The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunderbolt of understanding and awe for the miracle of it all, and I still feel that way.

Babies are born every day but truly, each one is a little miracle.

In my life, it would probably be giving birth to my daughter. That probably is the most, the thing that moved me the most, was the most memorable, the most wonderful, the most miraculous. I think a lot of women would probably feel that way, too.

What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

I was born in 1989. I literally watched 'Rocko's Modern Life' on live television.

My mom and dad were very young when they had me.

My second daughter's birth stopped time. My world lost its momentum in revolving towards goals and dreams.

My first child, I think I was completely shell shocked. I was ecstatic but in shock that I was now responsible completely for another life and it was my co-creation and how did I manage that?! I was in awe that I had actually done what millions of other women had done, given birth and now an added responsibility of 'mommy' in my life ahead!