Quotes About Birth

Full circle, from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come:

But the mistery of the woman is no less a mystery than death. Childbirth is no less a mystery; nor the flow of the mother's milk; nor the menstrual cycle -in its acoord with the moon. The creative magic of the female body is a thing of wonder in itself.

It was all born suddenly, in a tempestuous wind. Eagles awoke out of turkey eggs.

It is in Europe that we are born and bred to a single role. America is populated by second acts, encores and revivals.

they had been doomed to birth and condemned to live.

We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born

MR. WEINGLASS: Between the date of your birth, November 30, 1936, and May 1, 1960, what if anything occurred in your life? HOFFMAN: Nothing. I believe it is called an American education. -from the Chicago 7 trial

You were born a child of light's wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Even before his brain digests these sights, his body—skin, nerve endings, lungs, heart—recognizes the geography of his birth. He never understood how much it mattered. Every bit of this lush landscape is his; its every atom contains him.

Please understand. This happened before her birth. She was born this way. Nothing you or anyone else did caused it. Understand? This isn't your fault. In Jeremiah, doesn't God say, 'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee'?" "He does!" she says, shocked to hear a Bible verse from this worldly man.

Our Advent journey, preparing our hearts to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, takes us to the cross, where we remember that the Child whose birth we celebrate would be tortured and killed, and that on that cross he gave his life that we might receive life. He bore our sins that

Today Gustaw has died, today Konrad was born

the Galtons were Quakers and gunsmiths, which might seem an unlikely combination given that religion's commitment to nonviolence. Francis was born to Samuel Galton and Frances Darwin in 1822

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

28When Lamech had lived 182 years, he begot a son. 29And he named him Noah, saying, "This one will provide us relief * from our work and from the toil of our hands, out of the very soil which the Lord placed under a curse." 30After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and begot sons and daughters. 31All the days of Lamech came to 777 years; then he died. 32When Noah had lived 500 years, Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Perché non ero nato cent'anni prima? Al tempo della guerra, quando un uomo valeva qualcosa anche se non teneva bottega?

We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born of that nothing is the beginning of truth.

Whereever a poet is born enduring depends on the frailest of chances: Who listened to your murmuring over your little rubbish who let you be who gave you the books who let you know you were not alone

blessing and cursing are born as twins and separated at birth to meet again in mourning

in a curious and unanticipated way, we really do welcome the birth of our child. There

I was allowed to take my adoptive father's surname. My birth certificate has a different name. My passport has both my adoptive and biological father's surnames.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.