Quotes About Birth

Trust your instinct, care less and you won't be so stressed. Birth and death are solitary. Spend the time in between with the ones you love. Live, Love and be happy.

Children cannot help how they are born, they had no choice in it. Choosing to be a fool, though . . .

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Many studies revealed startling truths about technology, such as that routine use of electronic fetal monitoring on every birthing woman does not lower the perinatal mortality rate, but sharply increases the rate of C-sections.

If men wish to control their women, they must find a way to control midwives.

At every person's birth, he or she is assigned a certain daemon by his own star, a guardian of life to help with his destined task.

awkward parent. His mother died in childbirth

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

My father and mother did not think they should have brought a superintendent into the world.

If women die in childbed, that does no harm. It is what they were made for.

Therefore Jerome — whether it is his own judgment or the opinion of others — says that Moses did not want to make mention of Simeon because the traitor Judas was to be born from him;28 and even up to this time the tribe of Simeon is the most contemptible among these dregs of the Jews.

But Simeon is the most abject tribe of all, for he is cursed by his father Jacob and is passed over in silence by Moses. Jerome, as I have stated, is of the opinion that no mention is made of Simeon because Judas Iscariot was to be born from that tribe.

The human seed, this mass from which I was formed, is totally corrupt with faults and sins. The material itself is faulty. The clay, so to speak, out of which this vessel began to be formed is damnable. What more do you want? This is how I am; this is how all men are. Our very conception, the very growth of the foetus in the womb, is sin, even before we are born and begin to be human beings.

It is historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own.' Francis Thompson ('Daisy', 1913), 1859-1907 'Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.' Colley Cibber (The Double Gallant, 1707), 1671-1757

Every night and every morn Some to misery are born. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence

On that day he came forth from the bridal chamber as one born of a bridegroom and a bride.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later...Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

I produced offspring. I sought to equal the deeds of my father. I won the praise of my ancestors so that they are glad that I was born to them.

Writing something down cannot change in any significant way our mental representation of it, for it is the mental representation that gives birth to the written form, not vice versa.