Birth Quotes - Page 12

• It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Years, One Day, Contemplation

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• What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Grief, Suffering

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• They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.

  William Cowper

  Judging, Poetic, Known

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.113

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• Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Silence, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.353

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• You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

  William Stafford

  Purpose, World, Whole

  William Stafford, “Assurance”

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• Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

  Alistair Cooke

  Christmas, Christian, Country

  Alistair Cooke (2007). “Letter from America, 1946-2004”, p.131, Knopf

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• Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

  Edmund Burke

  Unjust, Ancestry, Preference

  "Reflections on the Revolution in France". Political pamphlet by Edmund Burke, November 1790.

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• I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Feet, My Birthday, Three

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• The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

  Roland Barthes

  Book, Cost, Reader

  "The Death of the Author" (1968)

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• Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

  Lewis Mumford

  Growth, Immortality, Renewal

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Wings, Goal, Heaven

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

  Abraham Maslow

  Often Is, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

  Camille Paglia

  Feminism, Pills, Birth Control

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.38, Vintage

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• Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

  Dogen

  Compassion, Evil, Worry

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• The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

  Dogen

  Sky, Enlightenment, Painting

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• Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.

  Tom O'Connor

  Self, Personal Transformation, Events

  Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub

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• Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Motherhood, Frustrated

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• Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mother, Pride, Land

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• God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  God Love, Strive, Witness

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• People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  People, Abuse, Family And Friends

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• A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Growth, Six, Body

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• Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.

  Guy Finley

  Fear, Life Changing, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 28, 2015

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• I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

  Paul Cezanne

  Confused, Expression, Stills

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• Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

  George Farquhar

  Courage, War, Spring

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.485

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• Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.

  Washington Allston

  Eye, Color, Giving

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 20, 2002.

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