Quotes About Birth

a birthmark the shape of Africa.

Book the First A MOUSE IS BORN Book the Second CHIAROSCURO Book the Third GOR! THE TALE OF MIGGERY SOW Book the Fourth RECALLED TO THE LIGHT Coda

If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.

How proud I am, dancing in the air full of eyes rubbing at me uncovered, unable to look away because of what I am. Those poor hop toads behind me are silent. I've conquered them. They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. (20)

I'm sick of this society. Earn a living as if I'm not yet living; lobotomized and robotized from birth, they tell me I can't do anything I want to do in the subtlest and sneakiest ways possible. They want to erase all possible hints that I've been born. I have two centers: love and my desire to sleep.

It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn't imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.

A friend of mine's just had a baby," Niki said. "She's really pleased. I can't think why. Horrible screaming thing she's produced.

What's their purpose? I asked as a I stood. Children? No idea. It appears to be simply an inconvenient stage between birth and usefulness.

The fact that it was a woman who brought our Lord into the world.

Then he told himself to be calm: this took place a thousand times a day all over the world. He did not need to understand it. The baby would come without his help.

Babies grow from a seed. The seed comes out of a man's prick and is planted in a woman's cunny.

institution, poor mite." Lloyd had heard how the baby had been delivered by eleven-year-old Carla. That little girl

I was born dead. Not you. You wasn't born dead. Ahhhh, it's been hard...

The more familiar we are with a biblical story, the more difficult it is to view it outside of the way it has always been understood. And the longer imprecision in the tradition remains unchallenged, the deeper it becomes embedded in Christian consciousness. The birth story of Jesus is such a story.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

Power came the way a child came -- with agony.

Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman