Quotes About Birth

Most people know who Pegasus is, for instance, but few realize that he was born from the blood of snake-headed Medusa immediately after she was slain by Perseus. The luminous winged stallion of the Greeks emerged from the life force of womanly wisdom in its darkest, most disturbing aspect

Oh my god" Meg ranted. "Her water just broke!" Margaret" Eve said, "get a grip - and a towel. I'll be there in five minutes." (After her sister is off to the hospital and Meg comes close to hyperventalating) Shouldn't we have called an ambulance or something?" Meg fretted. Oh for heavens sakes," Eve replied. "You don't need an ambulance!" Not for me, Mother for Sierra.

Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.

In the very instant of his birth, I associated Kevin with my own limitations—with not only suffering, but defeat.   Eva

Kevin nació en 1984… Un año muy temido, como recordarás; y, aunque yo me burlaba mucho de todos aquellos que se tomaban en serio la arbitraria elección de George Orwell para título de su obra, esa fecha marcó para mí el inicio de una tiranía.

Evie gave birth later that year to a high-spirited girl with flame-colored curls, leading St. Vincent to the conclusion that it was his destiny to be loved by many red-haired women. He was very pleased.

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

Vampires aren't made - they're just born that way, and no one knows why. They're sort of a race unto themselves.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

I was born in Detroit, then shortly after I was born, I went on the road with my mother, who performed with Minsky's, a variety show that toured around the U.S. doing five shows a day.

I have healed myself through sharing my birth story as well as others' stories in my film 'No Woman, No Cry,' and in various writings and talks about maternal health.

Socialisation is not optional. It's an inescapable contract, and our birth into the world is our signature of agreement. Norms and ideologies vary from society to society, and most of them weren't formed during our lifetimes but were handed down from one generation to the next.

Legends are living, breathing entities in and of themselves. They are born, they feed, they grow, they can give birth to offspring, and they can die. Attention is what feeds a legend.

Women should have as many children as possible

We are monsters, stamped from birth with forbidden hungers, and these can no more be Corrected than can the need to breathe. Bird

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

birth is life's first lottery ticket.

He remained silent for the rest of the journey, having been made painfully aware that birth is life's first lottery ticket. Tom

They're both oaks, even if they were planted in different forests. But then we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

If you are lucky enough to have been born an Englishman, you have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.' The

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to use before we're born.

I was extracted, spanked, and hosed off, in that order. They wrapped me in a blanket and put me on display among six other infants, four boys, two girls, all of them, unlike me, correctly tagged. This can't be true but I remember it: sparks slowly filling a dark screen. Someone had switched on my eyes.