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Quotes About Birth

Napoleone di Buonaparte, as he signed himself until manhood, was born in Ajaccio, one of the larger towns on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, just before noon on Tuesday, August 15, 1769.
~ Andrew Roberts
In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that. That's why there are so few of us.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that. That's why there are so few of us. We're growing old, dying, without anyone to pass our knowledge, our gifts, on to. We lack successors. And this world is full of Evil which waits for the day none of us are left.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Your mother gives birth to you only once and only once do you die," the witcher said calmly.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Your mother gives birth to you only once and only once do you die
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
~ Andy Warhol
No es tan grande prestigio como cree la gente simple, a cada rato nacen chicos con los ojos abiertos, aunque hay que reconocer que en general vienen al mundo con los ojos sensatamente cerrados.
~ Angélica Gorodischer
What decides where we are born and into what kind of life and why?
~ Angelina Jolie
Birth is the epicenter of women's power.
~ Ani DiFranco
I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I just want some say in between
~ Ani DiFranco
the deep deficiency of perception created by patriarchy. Only in a world so thoroughly immersed in patriarchy would this whole farce of enforced reproduction (or enforced sterilization) even be possible. Men dictating to women when and how they shall give birth is treason.
~ Ani DiFranco
and becomes that dragonfly, that mountain, that happy, cherished baby right there. Trust women and fear not. All of consciousness is manifesting, no matter who gives birth to what.
~ Ani DiFranco
To Darkness You, darkness, of whom I am born— I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes all the rest. But the dark embraces everything: shapes and shadows, creatures and me, people, nations—just as they are. From The Book of Hours I, 11
~ Anita Barrows
obligation to their parents. She said they don't ask to be born. The obligation all goes one way. I didn't see it then but now I think she
~ Ann Cleeves
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
~ Caitlin Moran
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.
~ Paul Di Filippo
I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
~ Sakshi Tanwar
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
~ Norman Cousins
You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
~ Aisha Tyler
The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside. That we should no longer be victims of the birth lottery. That no one should be stuck in a poor place where they don't have a job simply because of an accident of birth.
~ Leila Janah
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
~ Charles Perrault
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
~ Stephen Hawking
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
~ Robert Bolt