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Quotes About Birth

My son was born between my first and year of graduate studies.
~ Annamie Paul
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
~ Amelie Nothomb
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
~ Bodhidharma
I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.
~ Deborah Tannen
I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.
~ Rima Fakih
This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.
~ John Darnielle
Every time a thought is born, you are born. Thought in its very nature is shortlived, and once it is gone, that's the end of it. That is probably what the traditions meant by rebirth -- death and birth and death and birth. It is not that this particular entity, which is non-existing even while you are living, takes a series of births. The ending of births and deaths is the state that they are talking about.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.' It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
Each of us is born with the potential for the unfolding of our true self. When you deviate from the truth, you are interfering with the intention of something greater than you are- call it nature or a higher power. As a result, you develop discomfort.
~ Unknown
The king was pregnant.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
KauÅ›alyá bore an infant blest With heavenly marks of grace impressed;
~ V?lm?ki
Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.
~ Vachel Lindsay
Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth.
~ Unknown
Sonetul c?tre vânt Curgi, vântule: nebun nisip C?ci lumea e o lumânare Cel care vine f?r? chip Ucide umbrele-n suflare. Acesta este trupul meu Osp?? bolnav de alterare Hr?ne?te-te ?i bea mereu C?ci sângele-i cu minutare O, schimb?-m? în ce nu sunt În alt? na?tere mai mare Din pântece eram p?mânt ?i mama m? crezuse soare. Curgi, vântule: trezit mormânt, Pe flac?ra întâmpl?toare.
~ Unknown
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.
~ Vera Nazarian
The Goddess of all Things rose naked from Chaos and found nowhere to place her foot. Separating the sea from the sky, she brooded over the waters until she gave birth to life-Herself.
~ Unknown
The rights of children as individuals begin while yet the remain the fetus... I hold abortion to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.
~ Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
~ Emily Prager
Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
~ Ace Antonio Hall
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
~ Ouida
Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
~ Aberjhani
Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.
~ Georgette Leblanc
My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.
~ Kristen Stewart