Quotes About Birth

Dozens of species of insects give virgin birth. Crayfish give virgin birth. Some honeybees give virgin birth. And Komodo dragons - yeah, those big lizards give virgin birth, too. Jeez, one human gives virgin birth and that jump-starts one of the world's greatest religions. But when a Komodo dragon gives virgin birth, do you know what it's thinking? It's thinking, 'This is Tuesday, right? I think this is Tuesday. What am I going to do on Wednesday?

Because our birth mothers made a choice for us that dramatically changed the course of our lives and over which we had no control, many of us have a foundational belief (often unconscious) that we don't have the right to choose our own course in life. We feel instead that we are at the mercy of others.

Then one detail caught my attention. Time (of birth), 5:57 A.M. Wow! I really was born! I wasn't an alien who was dropped down into my adoptive parents' arms. I was a real baby who experienced a real birth from a real mother at a real time of day. For me, that tid-bit of information was like a meal to a starving woman.

I've even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf)

Dammit, Vik. How can you not know what's wrong with this thing? Can't you commune with it or something? (Devyn) My name is not 'Dammit, Vik' and I find it ironic that you think I can commune with all metal beings when you can barely communicate your point of view to your own parents. And they birthed you. I did not give birth to this ship. Last time I checked, I was male and that would be impossible on a multitude of levels. (Vik)

Why would you train an instrument of destruction? (Jericho) We all choose our destinies. Our birth doesn't dictate our future unless we allow it. (Acheron)

He's ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)

He went to Tory and with one more push, his son slid into his hands. For a full minute, he couldn't breathe as he stared at the tiniest, most perfect creature he'd ever seen in his life.) "Is it a smurf?" - Tory

No destiny is set by any birth. no matter how lowly or how high. All creatures have the right and ability to choose who and what they become... Be it good or evil.

Don't touch the baby, Mennie." – Acheron "Now I know you didn't just come at me with your attitude, Mr. High And Might Atlantean God. Believe you me, if there's one thing I know how to do it's birth nonhuman infants. Been doing it since before even your old ass was born." – Menyara

I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." ''Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family of genetic code.' – Tory

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.

It's always been very clear to me that I was going to be a mother and that my purpose in life was to give life.

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.