Quotes About Birth

Cómo vamos a traer a un niño a este mundo inhumano?... En un mundo absurdo, inhumano y cruel... traer a un hijo era equivalente a cometer un infanticidio.

was stört, ist die Zeit, die seit ihrer Geburt schon vergangen ist ! Besonders hier, wo es hell ist... Doch das Licht der Liebe ... ist auf sie gefallen, hat sie als ein im Fallen schon aufgeplatztes Sackerl Abfall auf den Boden geworfen.

Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.

The profound experience of childbirth does not produce profound people. If this were so, the guy with ten kids would be a prophet and priests would be out of work.

We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don't die that way.

Birth and death are the two states that bracket our lives. One thrusts us crying into consensual reality from the Pleroma and the other ushers us back there at the end of life.

His daughters had lived their early life in permanent disgrace for having, none of them, been born a boy.

I was raised with an innocence at odds with the experience of my pragmatic Arab ancestors. To be born in these parts is not only to know loss and rumination, but also to savor the endless pleasures of discord.

Looking back on his life he reflected, 'In my case it must have been a passionate urge to understanding that brought about my birth. For that is the strongest element in my nature' (MDR 297).

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.

We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.

I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

Maybe everything depends . . . on where you're born, and the inadequacy of the destiny that follows from that.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

A legend and a brigand can both also share the same birth date, so don't ever compare one's character with others' nature.

Often it has been seen that it is not the man but the woman, in the form of either mother or mother-in-law , who does not want to have the birth of a female child in the house.

Nothing shows the wit so poor, as wonder, nor birth so mean, as pride.

Everything has an origin in it, and animals are no exception.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

To some writers, nothing appears of so much consequence as the skillful regulation of property; because it is this much coveted object that gives birth to most disputes and most seditions.

A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be.

The workplace would allow parents to work part time, to share jobs, to take personal leaves to give birth, tend to a sick child, or care for a well one. As Delores Hayden has envisioned in Redesigning the American Dream, it would include affordable housing closer to places of work and perhaps community-based meal and laundry services.