Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

• Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Things In Life, Agony

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

• If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ideas, Giving, Creative

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

• Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mother, Children, Opinion

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

• Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Effort, Birth

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

• Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Philosophical, Sunset

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.93, Penguin

• Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Old Friends, Doe, Way

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.369, Penguin

• A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Birth Control, Family Reunion, Genealogy

• It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  War, Technology, Space

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