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Quotes About Birth

Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!
~ Ernest Holmes
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
~ Jacob K. Javits
The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.
~ Vera Farmiga
Incredible experience, watching a baby birth on the internet. It's now my screensaver.
~ David Letterman
Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
~ Susan Sontag
A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.
~ Michael J. Silverstein
What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?
~ Origen
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
~ Stephen King, Danse Macabre
People born in 1994-1999 have lived in three decades, two centuries, and two millenniums. And they are not even 18 yet. We're just that cool...
~ Unknown
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
~ Douglas Horton
I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.
~ Unknown
A quanto si dice, quando alla fine venne scostato il velo, mia madre sorrise. E fu così che mio padre capì che era idiota. Le spose non sorridono. Qando partorì me, un maschio, mio padre mi sfilò dalle sue braccia e mi passò a una levatrice. Mossa a compassione, la donna diede a mia madre un cuscino da stringere al mio posto. Lei lo abbracciò. Non parve notare alcuna differenza.
~ Madeline Miller
Je n'aurais pas été honnête de regretter ce qui m'avait donné la vie.
~ Madeline Miller
embossed with the story of the princess Danae. Zeus had wooed her in a shower of golden light, and she had borne him Perseus, Gorgon-slayer, second only to Heracles among our heroes.
~ Madeline Miller
The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand. We speak to our parents with a sorrow unfamiliar until the day they are dying.
~ Unknown
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
~ Mae West
The task of the cervix is to stay closed, to make an impenetrable wall protecting the fetus, for approximately forty weeks of a pregnancy. After that, by means of labor, the wall must somehow become an opening. This happens through dilation, which is not a shattering, but an extreme thinning.
~ Maggie Nelson
Karn?m burnumdayken gittiÄŸim partide bir kad?n doÄŸum uzman?yla tan??m??t?m. Hafiften aÄŸz? kayarak, bir s?r verir gibi "Bu doÄŸum iÅŸlerinde ya her ÅŸey yolunda gider ya da her ÅŸey batar" deyip kadehiyle karn?m? göstermiÅŸti. "Aras? yoktur".
~ Maggie O'Farrell
March roses shall burn me in the land where I was first born. / Pomegranate blossoms will conceive of me, / and I will be born from it once more.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
If you have seen in silent prayer How the soul of the earth fashions crystals, If you have seen the flame in the growing seed And death in life and birth in decay, If you have found brothers in men and beasts, And if you recognized in the brother, the brother and God, Then you will celebrate at the table of the holy grail Communion with the messiah of love. You will search and you will find, just like God said, The way to the lost paradise.
~ Unknown
Thus, instead of gaining only an internal silence, in the common sense of the word, he gains also that strange dynamic silence which preceded creation, and from which all things come—the silence of the heart of God. This silence is the root of sound, and from it pours forth the fiat that fashioned the world. This is the dynamic silence of creation, the tremendous dramatic silence of new birth forever taking place- new worlds forever fashioning.
~ Unknown
By initiation into the Mysteries and a certain process known as operative theology, this law of birth and death is transcended, and during the course of physical existence that part of the spirit which is asleep in form is awakened without the intervention of death. This is at once the primary purpose and the consummate achievement of the Mysteries: that man shall become aware of and consciously be reunited with the divine source of himself without tasting of physical dissolution.
~ Unknown
Desde el momento en que nacemos, también se inicia la vejez
~ Unknown
I see that suffering alone gives birth to souls, and more than ever before these sublime words of Jesus unveil their depths to me: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of [5]wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it will bring forth much fruit.
~ Unknown