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Quotes About Birth

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
~ John Fletcher
We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.
~ Epicurus
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
~ Sri Aurobindo
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.
~ Elihu Burritt
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
~ Anne Ridler
Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
~ Charles Lamb
Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
~ George Chapman
You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!
~ Stephen Richards
Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
~ Adolf Hitler
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
~ C. S. Lewis
The midwife of history is violence.
~ Franz Joseph I of Austria
The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Each of us is born with a history already in place
~ Walter Dean Myers
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port
~ Assata Shakur
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~ Richard Bach
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
~ Ina May Gaskin
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.
~ Erykah Badu
At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.
~ Ronda Rousey
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there.
~ Walter Cronkite
Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.
~ Christina Rossetti
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
~ Solomon