Quotes About Birth

nobody is born a Christian? The war over a soul begins before a baby even draws breath.

was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of His only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.

No juzgar es motivo de esperanza infinita. Todavía creo que perdería algo si olvidara que, como sugería mi padre con cierto esnobismo, y como con cierto esnobismo repito ahora, el más elemental sentido de la decencia se reparte desigualmente al nacer.

Me desperté de la anestesia con una sensación de profundo abandono, y le pregunté a la enfermera si era niño o niña. Me dijo que era una niña, y volví la cabeza y me eché a llorar. «Estupendo», dije, «me alegra que sea una niña. Y espero que sea tonta. Es lo mejor que en este mundo puede ser una chica: una tontita preciosa».

You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it, she said. And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death.

The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!

The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

Stuff that into your womb and give birth to it elsewhere!

We're afloat in amniotic fluid.' 'How's that?' 'Salt water. It's chemically almost identical with the fluid surrounding an unborn baby.

What is this solution?' asked Sparrow. 'The breakdowns are a rejection of birth by men who have unconsciously retreated into the world of prebirth. What child would seek birth if he knew that pain and fear – a constant menace – awaited him on the other

The boat spelled enveloping safety, a return to the womb. But when the men came ashore, that was birth: exposure. The sky's a hideous thing to men who want to hide from it.' Dr

BaÅŸlang?çlar! Hayat bunlardan ibaret iÅŸte! YaÅŸam var olduÄŸu sürece, her son bir baÅŸlang?çt?r. Ä°nsanl???n sürdürülmesi s?ras?nda vuku bulan hiçbir ölümün tam bir baÅŸar?s?zl?k olmamas? bu yüzdendir. DoÄŸumun bizi bu kadar etkilemesi bu yüzdendir. En trajik ölümün gencin ölümü olmas? bu yüzdendir.

people who live out there lives with a single fixed idea: Get them! It was a dangerous universe where such ideas were allowed to float around freely. Good civilizations took care that such ideas did not gain energy, did not even get a chance for birth. When they did occur, by chance or accident, they were to be diverted quickly because they tended to gather mass.

Something cannot emerge from nothing

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

my world is collapsing, my world is rebuilding itself; wait and see how you (meaning me) survive it all. I'm not lamenting the falling apart, it was already in a state of collapse, what I'm lamenting is the rebuilding, I lament my waning strength, I lament being born, I lament the light of the sun.

Writing, when it springs from within, is like giving birth, and the child is covered in mucus

Åžov?iala înaintea naÅŸterii.Dac? exist? într-adev?r metempsihoz?,atunci n-am ajuns pân? la treapta cea mai de jos.ViaÅ£a mea este ezitarea dinaintea naÅŸterii

I sometimes fee like the spirit of the past resurrected... After all, didn't cultural studies emerge somewhere at that moment when I first met Raymond Williams or in the glance I exchanged with Richard Hoggart? In that moment, cultural studies was born. It emerged full grown from my head!

It's right there on my birth certificate, 'Shelton Hank Williams III.' It's not fake.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

The idea of windows, that's so symbolic to me within labor. And I'm always opening windows during a birth. If someone's been in labor all night and they're exhausted and sort of over it, opening a window or drawing a curtain can change the game. And sometimes the doula is the first one to suggest it.

I was born in Texas, you know. I was born in Houston.

China is a travesty of a place, and you should thank God every day that you weren't born there.