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Quotes About Birth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
~ William Wordsworth
Happiness was born a twin.
~ Lord Byron
Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.
~ David Whyte
People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.
~ Elayne Boosler
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
~ John Green
Birth is the epicenter of women's power
~ Ani DiFranco
Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.
~ Frederick Lenz
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.
~ Frederick Lenz
The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.
~ Stuart Wilde
When you are born, you cried while others laughed around you, likewise make others cry when you are dead.
~ Robin S. Sharma
I was born at a very early age. As I grew up, I got older... So far though, this is the oldest I've ever been.
~ Rebecca Hurley
No one gave us life, we're the products of an explosion.
~ Dmitry Bakin
Who are we to question God's decisions about where we'll be born?…God does what He chooses without asking our opinions. Of that I'm sure.
~ John Clarke
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
~ James Van Praagh
Her intimate, edgy sculpture was grounded in female experience, including relationships, giving birth and motherhood.
~ Jan Greenberg
Waarschijnlijk omdat de dood de enige ziekte is waar we niet mee besmet hoeven te worden, waarvan we de bacil al vanaf de geboorte bij ons dragen.
~ Jan Wolkers
Are you sure you weren't adopted?" "Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.
~ Jana Deleon
The Dithyramb was the Song and Dance of the New Birth.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
Some," he says, "are prayers to the gods—these are called hymns; others of an opposite sort might best be called dirges; another sort are pæans, and another—the birth of Dionysos, I suppose—is called Dithyramb.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
But if the Dithyrambos, the young Dionysos, like the Bull-God, the Tree-God, arises from a dromenon, a rite, what is the rite of second birth from which it arises?
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.
~ Jane Weideman
A strong intention, a relaxed body and an open mind are the main ingredients for an active birth.
~ Janet Balaskas