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Quotes About Birth

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.
~ Edward Bellamy
Brands are born, not created.
~ Jane Lauder
London really is my city; I was born within a breath of Marble Arch.
~ Ben Fogle
The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
~ Naftali Bennett
My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next, followed by three more siblings in rapid succession.
~ Alex Tizon
They are very healthy. Yes, they were sucking and breathing on their own and everything when they came out. So there was no need to stay in the hospital. So we took them home the next day.
~ Cheryl Tiegs
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
~ Mary Antin
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
~ John Florio
I was born in a suit.
~ Leonard Cohen
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
~ Alexander Scriabin
I'll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia's obstetrician poked me awake: 'Congratulations... you have a fine son.'
~ Charlton Heston
It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.
~ Max Heindel
My mother was in labour for two full days before having me on a sunny August afternoon. She went into labour on the 7th, and I chose to make my big entrance on the 9th.
~ Dan Levy
I was born in June, so I like summer, and my favourite part of a sunny day is when the sun sets.
~ Jorja Smith
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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 the rest.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything must be carried to term before it is born. To let every impression and the germ of every feeling come to completion inside, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, in what is unattainable to one's own intellect, and to wait with deep humility and patience for the hour when a new clarity is delivered.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
You don't survive in me because of memories; nor are you mine because of a lovely longing's strength. What does make you present is the ardent detour that a slow tenderness traces in my blood. I do not need to see you appear; being born sufficed for me to lose you a little less.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything is gestation and then bringing forth.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
if he demolished pillars, it was when he burst from the world of your body into the narrower world.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is an impossibility until he is born; every thing impossible until we see a success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
to do anything with attachment. With desire . . . with anger..greed..lust . . . fear.. is only creating more karma, which is keeping you in the game . . . on the wheel of birth and death once you see through that. . . Desires can't help but fall away
~ Ram Dass