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Quotes About Birth

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...
~ Christina Rossetti
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.
~ Christina Rossetti
En tant que groupe effectivement soumis à ce rapport de production, elles constituent une classe, en tant que catégorie d'êtres humains destinés par naissance à entrer dans cette classe, elles constituent une caste.
~ Christine Delphy
the first six days of his life
~ Christopher Andersen
I wana go out like I came in... Naked and Screaming!
~ Christopher Baker
Culture was actually humanity's attempt to extend the womb.
~ Christopher Dawson
I must tell you I've just been reborn." "Nicholas, you always think you can do things better than your mother. You can be sure you were born quite adequately on the first occasion.
~ Christopher Fry
Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.
~ Heidi Murkoff
The pure beauty of death is impossible to describe as the birth of a child, the betrayal of a lover, the moment of orgasm
~ Heidi Postlewait
The experience profoundly changed my perspective. In the hospital, I hadn't perceived the anxiety and foreboding that permeated birth until I experienced the impact of its absence among the midwives. The peace, wonder, and intimacy were infinitely greater. What a compelling difference!
~ Heidi Rinehart
Der Mutterschoss ist keine Einbahnstraße.
~ Heiner Müller
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
~ Heinz R. Pagels
Poor wretched beasts (said he) Why gave we you t'a mortall king? De dumty dumty dum De dumty dumty dumty dum de dumty dumty dum? De dumty dumty dumty dum de dumty dumty dum? Of all the miserable'st things that breathe and creepe on earth, No one more wretched is then man. And for your deathless birth, Hector must faile to make you prise
~ Helen DeWitt
Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.
~ Helen McCarthy
We're friendly toward strangers because of a general belief (I don't know where it comes from) that we're born strangers and that the memory of how that feels never really leaves us.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
So Harriet maintains her point, which is that joining isn't a question of effort or overextension thereof. You miss your chance to join several generations before birth.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Now, St. John could have been born into his elegance. It's a dangerous kind of elegance—he doesn't raise his voice, he lowers it.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I was born by the river
~ Hena Khan
Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.
~ Henci Goer
Then, by dint of seeing the days born in the morning and miscarrying in the evening, I became afraid to die, and this fear was my first passion.
~ Henri Barbusse
We all came from our mothers' bellies. We all have hope in our veins. We don't want history to forget us, but the dead look after the afterwards.
~ Henri Cole
Jag föddes på en söndag och söndagsbarn är glada och lättsamma och det går bra för dem i livet.
~ Henrik Tikkanen
As thoughts possess the fashion of the mood That gave them birth, so every deed we do, Partakes of our inborn disquietude That spurns the old and reaches toward the new.
~ Henry Abbey
To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.
~ Henry David Thoreau