Quotes About Birth

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

He had been born thrifty which was fortunate, for he was too earnest and humble ever to win earthly riches.

Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

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?

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

All natural birth has a purpose and a plan; who would think of tearing open the chrysalis as the butterfly is emerging? Who would break the shell to pull the chick out?

Of course, we know that there are devices, apparatuses, and drugs that forcefully make your body do what it already knows how to do. But how dare we presume to attempt to improve upon what nature has perfectly orchestrated and validated over centuries? Dr. Michele Odent, world-renowned birth professional states, "You cannot improve upon a natural function. The answer is not to hinder it.

Birth is a mystery. Words are not enough.

Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy.

You fear no inferno when you are born amidst flames.It's another flesh wound, another lasting burn.Carry them with you.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don't let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

To be born with a personality is a gift from your parents. But to die as a personality is an achievement of your own.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

No man is born without faults; he is the best who is influenced by the fewest.

Life is a small gap between BIRTH & DEATH, So in this gap Be Happy and try to make others Happy..! Enjoy every moment of life..

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.