Quotes About Birth

Vain mistaken mortals, who, valuing themselves on names and titles, suppose that the virtues of the mind must be attached to an empty sound, when every day's experience proves that birth is disgraced, titles rendered contemptible, and riches a curse, by the vices, meanness, and dissipation of its possessors!

you once lay there, the vernix not yet wiped off, and someone gazed at you as if you were the first sunrise seen from the Earth.

A man can't help where he's born. A cat can have kittens in the oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits.

On the fine, bright morning in early May when the whole sensational affair of the Gwytherin relics may properly be considered to have begun, Brother Cadfael had been up long before Prime, pricking out cabbage seedlings before the day was aired, and his thoughts were all on birth, growth and fertility, not at all on graves and reliquaries and violent deaths, whether of saints, sinners or ordinary decent, fallible men like himself.

The disease of mortality is in us from the womb, from the day of our birth we are on the way to our death.

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking thought.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.

I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and none other, Close with her, kiss her, and mix her with me. Cling to her, strive with her, hold her fast; O fair white mother, in days long passed Born without sister, born without brother, Set free my soul as thy soul is free.

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Month of sacrifice and month of playfulness. Month of restoration, of fertility-festivity. Month when the earth and the buds are already open, the creatures asleep for the winter have woken and are already breeding, the birds have already built their nests, birds that this time last year didn't exist, just bringing to life the birds that'll replace them this time next year. Spring-cuckoo month, grass-month.

I didn't mean to be born.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

the future gives birth to the present

Meanwhile, some private schools even enroll students at birth. At the Wetherby School in England, a school Princes William and Harry attended, the spaces reserved by newborns fill up early each month, and the school advises women scheduling cesarean sections to have them on the first of the month, if possible, to get a place before all the spots are gone.

era, sin discusión, la más graciosa: poseía esa maravillosa soltura de movimientos, que es la suprema injusticia de la naturaleza, ya que la gracia se otorga o se deniega en el momento de nacer sin que ningún esfuerzo posterior pueda paliar la ausencia de la misma.

Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy.

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

I was born in a blizzard, a special out-of-season blizzard, the worst blizzard Oslo ever suffered. Family, home, circumstances, the country I lived in and the weather I was born in all conspired to make a skater of me.

I can't stand small babies. I would rather give birth to a kitten or a colt... a little pony.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.