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Quotes About Birth

Life was born in that manger; it's what the Christmas story is about. Life was born among the dead so that the dead would come to life.
~ Paul David Tripp
The birth of Jesus is a sure sign that God will act where we cannot act, and he will act with life-giving grace. Celebrate that Jesus came to give life, because it's the one gift we could never, ever give ourselves.
~ Paul David Tripp
You've been born into a world of authority, and it is not you.
~ Paul David Tripp
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
~ Paul Davies
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given ' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.
~ Paul Davies
To you this is a great mystery, but for me death holds no mystery: just three corpses, the ka of which are already travelling into the Far West. I am simply here to ease their way, like a midwife at birth
~ Unknown
In the beginning, all there was was the divine Mother. All things in the beginning are female.
~ Unknown
Coincidentally, the solver of the riddle (how the speed of light appears to a moving observer) would be born in the year of Maxwell's death.
~ Unknown
UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL Luke is the only Gospel to share Jesus' stories ("parables") of the good Samaritan (10:25–37), the prodigal son (15:11–32), and the rich man and Lazarus (16:19–31). Luke is also the only Gospel to detail Jesus' actual birth and words He spoke in childhood (both in Chapter 2). SO WHAT? It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from, or what you've done—Jesus came to seek and to save you.
~ Unknown
If history, as by most definitions, begins with writing, then the birth, rise and fall of ancient Mesopotamia occupies a full half of all history.
~ Unknown
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
~ Paul Theroux
I've left Bethlehem and I feel free... I've left the girl I was supposed to be and some day I'll be born.
~ Paula Cole
We have said that the human infant is incomplete at birth. It is our role as adults to assist our children in the formidable task of finishing their own formation as human beings.
~ Unknown
She could either give birth to a fool who would live long or be blessed with a genius who would die young.
~ Unknown
The harvest moon hangs round and high It dodges clouds high in the sky, The stars wink down their love and mirth The Autumn season is giving birth. Oh, it must be October...
~ Unknown
Pues el delito mayor del hombre es haber nacido.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I desire from thee to know, Since thou thus dost treat me so, Why have I provoked thy scorn By the crime of being born?—
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Since man's greatest crime on earth Is the fatal fact of birth — Sin supreme without appeal.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The worst thing I do is to exist. When I think of that I understand A human's greatest crime is to be born!
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Childbirth provided the drama I craved, the thrill of peeking over the primal edge of creation, the rush of the unexpected.
~ Unknown
Giving birth is a transformation and it doesn't matter whether you've had eight babies before. It's still a transformation the next time you have another baby, because you are no longer the same woman you were before you had that baby.
~ Unknown
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.
~ Peter Høeg