Quotes About Birth

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

The European rabbit flea is so synchronized with its host that a female flea only gestates when living on a pregnant doe; when the doe gives birth, so does the flea, and the new fleas find a happy home on the baby rabbit.

How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.

It faded on the crowing of the cock.Some say that ever 'gainst that season comesWherein our Savior's birth is celebrated,The bird of dawning singeth all night long;And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad;The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.

A grievous burden was thy birth to me;Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy.

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

'Tis better to be lowly born,And range with humble livers in content,Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring griefAnd wear a golden sorrow.

Beauty, wit,High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,Love, friendship, charity, are subjects allTo envious and calumniating time.One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Macduff was from his mother's wombUntimely ripp'd.

I was not born under a riming planet.

We are born into mystery and we leave life in mystery.

The sunshine is a glorious birth;But yet I know, where'er I go,That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The soul that rises with us, our life's star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness,And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we comeFrom God, who is our home:Heaven lies about us in our infancy!Shades of the prison-house begin to closeUpon the growing boy.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting...

COMPARE) - Our birth is but a dream and a forgetting (Wordsworth) - ...so schläft er sehr rasch wieder ein, und schon nach vierundzwanzig Stunden ist es, als sei man niet weg gewesen und als sei die Reise der Traum einer Nacht. (Thomas Mann) - Thetis baptized her mortal son in Styx; A mortal mother would on Lethe fix. (Byron)

On the seventh hourOn the seventh dayOn the seventh monthThe seventh doctor sayHe was born for good luckAnd that you'll seeI got seven hundred dollarsDon't you mess with me

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

The day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.

Een bed ziet ons geboren worden en ziet ons doodgaan; het is een wisselend toneel waar het mensdom beurtelings boeiende drama's, lachwekkende kluchten en afschuwelijke treurspelen opvoer. - Het is een met bloemen versierde wieg; - het is de troon der liefde; - het is een graf.

Life starts in nature and returns to nature.