Quotes About Birth

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

The political powers, in both Jesus' day and our own, play on fear to get their way—whether it be the fear of the emperor, the fear of terrorists, the fear of the foreign "other," or the fear of death. But with "this day" comes a new possibility. The first words spoken after Jesus' birth are "'Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people.

If it's a freak to be the only puppy in a litter," answered the Mistress, refusing to part with her enthusiasm over the miracle, "then this one ought to bring us luck. Let's call him 'Bruce.' You remember, the original Bruce won because of the mystic number, seven. This Bruce has got to make up to us for the seven puppies that weren't born. See how proud she is of him! Isn't she a sweet little mother?

Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

Sinto-me nascido a cada momento para a completa novidade do mundo...

Fue un parto», dicen los que no saben o los que creen que el arte real surge del sufrimiento. Para sufrir y pasarlo mal no hay que ser artista; todos más o menos sufren y saben cómo curarse.

porque yo no pedí nacer en forma de signo de interrogación

Alguien me está gestando indefiniblemente. Sé que naceré muerta.

Extraño desacostumbrarme de la hora en que nací. Extraño no ejercer más oficio de recién llegada.»

He dado el salto de mí al alba. He dejado mi cuerpo junto a la luz y he cantado la tristeza de lo que nace

PEREGRINA.—No os entiendo. Si os oigo quejaros siempre de la vida, ¿por qué os da tanto miedo dejarla? ABUELO.— No es por lo que dejamos aquí. Es porque no sabemos lo que hay al otro lado. PEREGRINA.—Lo mismo ocurre cuando el viaje es al revés. Por eso lloran los niños al nacer.

La nostra infelice era ancora nascosta nel ventre della madre, che la sua condizione era già irrevocabilmente stabilita. Rimaneva soltanto da decidersi se sarebbe un monaco o una monaca; decisione per la quale faceva bisogno, non il suo consenso, ma la sua presenza.

A world he'd waited for to be born came into being with my return to him, and I was now the source of it. I

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad....Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of man; we seem to be transported into a world different from that which gave us birth.

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

Only the Dreams never die, because the dream is a birth into the unborn again, a commencing where we ended, a starting where we stopped to rest, a crossroad of eternity, a giving up of something to possess all things. The beginning of the real.

We are a short poem in a endless emptiness page, words are lighthouses that ignites and struggle to deliver light to the dark edges of the infinite, and mystic sounds struggle to give voice to the unlived beings, to bore a young soul to the gate of birth.

During the wars of the Empire, while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and neurotic generation. Conceived between battles, reared amid the noises of war, thousands of children looked about them with dull eyes while testing their limp muscles. From time to time their blood-stained fathers would appear, raise them to their gold-laced bosoms, then place them on the ground and remount their horses.

What I learned from my son's birth is that fearing the future is normal but a waste of time.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.

In the natural life, we eat, we drink water, we give birth, we pay taxes. In the spiritual life, we can only reach it by faith.

I have five children. There were four boys. The fifth, I got weak, and a girl came.