Quotes About Birth

He was freer and less constrained in the womb; he has gained nothing by birth.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.

I had been born in order to fill the great need I had of myself.

Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.

movements never quite exist, they are passages, intermediaries between two existences, moments of weakness, I expected to see them come out of nothingness, progressively ripen, blossom: I was finally going to surprise beings in the process of being born.

We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

The work of creation is never without travail.

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life.

Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

I am a firm believer that an oppressed society gives birth to crime.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.

I think everyone born in Oregon is an environmentalist by birth.

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.

You can equate our music to childbirth. It's brutal and harsh, but there's still a beautiful thing occurring.