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Quotes About Birth

The creation of a human being from the union of a sperm and an egg. Think about it. A single fertilized egg cell gives rise to many trillions of cells. Impressive enough already. But how do these trillions of cells know how to organize themselves into a human body? Into a human brain? How do they know where to be?" Alyssa smiled stupidly.
~ Douglas E. Richards
But we also can't fathom how an egg cell can fabricate a baby.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
~ Douglas Horton
We are told that this child was born in order to rule, for the government will be upon his shoulder. And the second thing we are told about His government is that it will continually increase (v. 7). He will bear the government upon His shoulder, and it will be a continually increasing government. This increase—unlike the growth of secular governments—will be a blessing, and not a pestilence. This is the real big government.
~ Douglas Wilson
You were born of a woman, and so you come from a race of dragon-slayers. This does not mean you will succeed. It just means the thing is possible.
~ Douglas Wilson
If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.
~ Dr. Seuss
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
~ William Shakespeare
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
~ Guy de Maupassant
I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are
~ Suzanne Collins
If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.
~ Jonathan Cainer
Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.
~ Ala Bashir
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty
~ Shashi Deshpande
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.
~ Michael Drayton
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
~ Jacques Derrida
What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.
~ Martin Heidegger
The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
~ David Duchovny
Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.
~ Frederic Henry Hedge
It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
~ John Phillips
A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.
~ Jakob Bohme
Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.
~ Pope John Paul II
Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.
~ Avery Johnson
Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.
~ Bernie Siegel