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Quotes About Birth

He left such a reputation behind him that even his birth was said to have proclaimed him a monster. He had been two years, we are told, in his mother's womb, and was born or rather, like Macduff, was by a surgical operation separated from his mother's body when he came into the world feet foremost, with teeth in his jaws, and with hair down to the shoulders.
~ James Gairdner
Our sixth child, MariaVictoria, when she was born, before any of us could hand MariaVictoria to my wife Rachel, Uncle Sam stepped in and handed her a bill for $43,000.
~ Sean Duffy
Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
~ Bhagat Singh
I was born with a mother who loved me unconditionally and with a sense of humor.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
~ Liam Payne
We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
~ Benjamin Watson
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
~ Sydney Brenner
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.
~ Alberto Manguel
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
~ Georg Brandes
The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy i'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth & everything i was born to be.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.
~ Compton Gage
Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.
~ Compton Gage
Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she had fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.
~ Compton Gage
Have been most timid of cowards from day of birth, " replied Li Han, without shame, "and this is an inauspicious day."- "No it ain't, " said Olaf, "it ban Thursday.
~ The Road to Samarcand
Moments give birth to new memories
~ Munia Khan
With newborns becomes new imagination into new wisdom and knowledge.
~ Matthew Donnelly
We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.
~ Ina May Gaskin
...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.
~ Michel Odent
Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.
~ Michel Odent
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
~ Fran Lebowitz
There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.
~ Karen Marie Moning