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Quotes About Birth

I was adopted. I was born in Edinburgh, and adopted when I was about two weeks old. And it's a good thing, I think, really, that back then, in '75 when I was born, you were really given a lot more information than you're given now when you're adopted. And you know, you can access that information when you're older.
~ KT Tunstall
The typical conditions for the birth of a bull market are here: you have a changed country, you have a deep fall in growth and everybody is perplexed by the rise of stocks.
~ Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.
~ Annie Dillard
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
~ Sam Waterston
The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
~ Laurence Housman
Our Savior's birth is the ultimate reminder that miracles happen and often when we don't expect them.
~ Kevin Brady
A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.
~ Jennie Finch
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
~ Gloria Swanson
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
~ T. E. Lawrence
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
~ E. T. A. Hoffmann
But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
~ Oriana Fallaci
I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
~ Tilda Swinton
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?
~ Eve Merriam
One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon
~ Cassandra Clare
No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.
~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder
~ Pope Gregory I
A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
~ Adyashanti
If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.
~ Christiane Northrup
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
~ Seneca the Younger
Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you get connected to the Divine Paradise.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.
~ Christiane Northrup
Home is where one starts from.
~ T. S. Eliot
The unborn baby lies in a cage we call a womb. He has eyes but cannot use them, and a mouth that he has never eaten with. He has been innately equipped for a world he has not been exposed to. His innate instincts like sucking, seeing, walking, and sitting have never been utilized because no opportunity exists in his present safe and warm cocoon of development. He must be born and enter the world to discover the instincts imbued by his Creator.
~ T.D. Jakes
All order has genocide hidden in its belly. Give it nine months and it will give birth, under clement conditions of course, to a holocaust.
~ Tabish Khair