Quotes About Birth

We're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention.

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

I firmly believe that the two most important times in a person's life are when they are born and when they find out why they were born.

The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Words can not express the joy of new life.

How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

The birth of my daughter, gave me life.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

I always remember someone saying how ironic it is that Christmas is celebrated in the home but we're celebrating the birth of a homeless child.

when he slipped out of his mother's womb, he was already filled with interior spaces that didn't belong to him, and he can't just look inside to inspect his own interior.

I'm getting sick of pretending to be excited every time it's somebody's birthday. What is the big deal? How many times do we have to celebrate that someone was born? Every year, over and over. All you did was not die for twelve months. That's all you've done, as far as I can tell.

Nació una tarde lluviosa de octubre, a comienzos del nuevo siglo en la fría Bogotá.