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Quotes About Birth

And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.
~ William Shakespeare
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
~ Koichi Tanaka
When a child is born the mother also is born again.
~ Gilbert Parker
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
~ John Updike
Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.
~ Kim Hyesoon
Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!
~ Mary Engelbreit
Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.
~ Richard Watson Gilder
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
~ Quentin Crisp
I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.
~ Mel Brooks
Nobody comes out of their mother's womb doing cucarachas.
~ Donnie Burns
I get no respect... I tell you, when I was born, the doctor smacked my mother
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.
~ Gene Simmons
All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.
~ Dalai Lama
Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse
~ Spike Milligan
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
~ Saint Augustine
Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.
~ Peter Jurasik
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
~ John Major
All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.
~ Camille Paglia
Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.
~ Zig Ziglar
Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.
~ Zach Braff
My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.
~ Kirsten Dunst
Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
~ Wendy Wasserstein
I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?
~ Marian Keyes