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Quotes About Birth

Though this knave came something saucily into this world before he was sent for, yet was is mother Fair; there was good sport at his making, and the Whoreson must be acknowledged.
~ William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. ??????, ?? ??????, ??? ?????? ?????? ? ?????? ??????.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, well! Why, have you any discretion? Have you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? CRESSIDA Ay, a minc'd man; and then to be bak'd with no date in the pie, for then the man's date is out.
~ William Shakespeare
every plan breaks easily, Because the intention is a slave to memory At the moment of birth, it digs itself a grave, Like a fruit, that holds to a branch, while green. And when it matures, it falls itself from the three.
~ William Shakespeare
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
~ William Wordsworth
I am enceinte, gravid, pregnant, in pup, call it what you will. No doubt there are as many names for the production of a child as for the act which initiates it.
~ Winston Graham
Churchill: The strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race. Mr. Seymour Cocks (Labor Party): If that had happened we should have lost the 1939 -45 war. Churchill: No, it would have prevented that war. [Speech in the House of Commons, May 11,1953]
~ Winston S. Churchill
This is not the end its only the begninning
~ Winston S. Churchill
The Russian people were left floundering in the bog. Their worst misfortune was his birth: their next worst—his death.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The failure to strangle Bolshevism at its birth and to bring Russia, then prostrate, by one means or another, into the general democratic system lies heavy upon us today.
~ Winston S. Churchill
When they said he didn't exist, he couldn't die of grief, so he had to be born. He's already out there living somewhere; he blinks his little eyes and grows.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Czy wi?c nic nigdy nie mo?e zosta? naprawd? wyra?one, oddane w swoim stawaniu si? anonimowym, nikt nigdy nie zdo?a odda? be?kotu rodz?cej si? chwili, jak to jest, ?e, urodzeni z chaosu nie mo?emy nigdy z nim si? zetkn??, zaledwie spojrzymy, a ju? pod naszym spojrzeniem rodzi si? porz?dek... i kszta?t...
~ Witold Gombrowicz
It's cruel to bring life into this terrible world.
~ Woody Allen
The weeds turned into a jungle where spiders wolfed the ladybugs and wasps dive-bombed the spiders. A world where the new babies of one came from the dead bodies of others.
~ Woody Guthrie
The major difference between human and other life forms on our planet is our ability to reason and to question. For just a moment, try to deliberately free your mind from what you have been told about religion, evolution, birth, death, God, and other concepts you have about why you're here on earth.
~ Wu Wei
We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.
~ Yann Martel
We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
~ Yann Martel
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
~ Yann Martel
The notion that egalitarian purposes could be served by the "restoration" of upward mobility betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding. High rates of mobility are by no means inconsistent with a system of stratification that concentrates power and privilege in a ruling elite. Indeed, the circulation of elites strengthens the principle of hierarchy, furnishing elites with fresh talent and legitimating their ascendancy as a function of merit rather than birth.
~ Christopher Lasch
He was born Michael Randall Hickman,
~ Christopher McDougall
Everywhere, as we go about our small business, we must discern the fingerprints of the gigantic plan, the orderly and inexorable routine with neither beginning nor end, in which death is but a preface to another birth, and birth the certain forerunner of another death.
~ Christopher Morley
I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.
~ Christopher Pike
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
~ Unknown
Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.
~ Claire Fontaine