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Quotes About Birth

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.
~ George Edward Woodberry
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.
~ George Herbert
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
No great man is ever born too soon or too late.
~ Norman Douglas
Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).
~ Paulo Coelho
A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.
~ Peter Kreeft
A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,—when?
~ Ridgely Torrence
Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
~ Robert Herrick
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
~ James Russell Lowell
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
~ John Donne
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
~ John Selden
On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
~ Lewis Mumford
My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
~ Stephen Fry
In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.
~ Ryan Lewis
I was a cute baby. My mom said when I was born they threw away the mold. Some of it grew back.
~ Emo Philips
It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!
~ January Jones
In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.
~ Liya Kebede