Birth Quotes

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

  Rajneesh

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• Labor gives birth to ideas.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Work, Creativity

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• It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. . . The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Impact, Giving, Mind

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• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

  Stendhal

  Love, Positive, Valentines Day

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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  After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Suicide, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

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• If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

  Michel Odent

  Inspiring, Children, Team

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• Birth was the death of him.

  Samuel Beckett

  Death

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Men, Deeds

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• The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Healing

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• Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

  Sam Levenson

  Baby, Children, Fun

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

  Margaret Mead

  Baby, Soulmate, Struggle

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• When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.

  Christiane Northrup

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Moving

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• Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

  Emily Prager

  Beauty, Suffering, Stills

  Emily Prager (1987). “A visit from the footbinder, and other stories”, Vintage

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• The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Passion, Safety, Giving

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• A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mothers Day, Baby, Food

  Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.388, Pollinger in Print

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• Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

  Maxim Gorky

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

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• A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Path

  The Sunday Times 18 July 1976

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• Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

  Robert Bolt

  Birthday, Death, Dying

  "A Man For All Seasons (Act II)". Play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More, July 1, 1960.

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• Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  Jean Cocteau

  Death, Ugly Things, Dying

  "Postambule". "La Fin du Potomac". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1939.

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• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Different, Birth And Death

  "Journey of the Magi" l. 35 (1927)

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• Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Education, Knowledge, People

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• Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Death, Spiritual

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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