Quotes About Birth

Interest in a sport peaks during its championship season. That's when even casual observers turn on their television sets, and lifelong fans are born.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

In a society like ours, to seek for literary glory seems to me an anachronism. Of what use is it to invoke an ancient sibyl when a muse is on the eve of birth? Pitiable actors in a tragedy nearing its end, that which it behooves us to do is to precipitate the catastrophe. The most deserving among us is he who plays best this part. Well, I no longer aspire to this sad success!

PRAYER to the sun above the clouds. Sun that givest all things birth, shine on everything on earth! If that's too much to demand, shine at least on this our land. If even that's too much for thee, shine at any rate on me.

Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs, in that I attend men and not women, and I look after their souls when they are in labor, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.

When asked by a woman from Attica:'Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?', she said: 'Because we are the only ones who give birth to men.

It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when some foreign lady, as it would seem, told her that the women of Lacedaemon were the only women of the world who could rule men; 'With good reason,' she said, 'for we are the only women who bring forth men'.

There is nothing so imperfect, so helpless, so naked, so shapeless, so foul, as man observed at birth, to whom alone, one might almost say, Nature has given not a clean passage to the light; but, defiled with blood and covered with filth, and resembling more one just slain than one just born, he is an object for none to touch or lift up or kiss or embrace except for someone who loves with a natural affection.

Tanpa wanita takkan ada bangsa manusia. Tanpa bangsa manusia takkan ada yang memuji kebesaranMu. Semua puji-pujian untukMu dimungkinkan hanya oleh titik darah, keringat dan erang kesakitan wanita yang sobek bagian badannya karena melahirkan kehidupan.

Dari bumi ini aku lahir. Dari bumi ini aku makan. Aku akan mati dan kembali di bumi ini juga - Muka Jawa (Wanita Jawa Yang Disumpah Ketua Adat Buru Agar Tidak Meninggalkan Mereka)

Siapa yang dapat ramalkan bagaimana jadinya bayi? Jadi nabi atau bajingan, atau jadi sekedar tambahan isi dunia.

Ah, Gus, begini kodrat perempuan. Dia menderitakan sakit waktu melahirkan, menderita sakit lagi karena tingkahnya.

Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam's ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a cramped position of my thigh.

He who is born a fool is never cured.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

And we say, 'Down with the privileges of education, as well as those of birth!' We are anarchists precisely because these privileges revolt us. They revolt us already in this authoritarian society. Could we endure them in a society that began by proclaiming equality?

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.