Birth Quotes - Page 13

• When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride.

  Jakob Bohme

  Blessed, Heart, Sadness

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• If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

  Jim Rogers

  Country, Birth Rate, Debt

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• Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.

  Emily Carr

  Reality, Knowing, Joy

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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• Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.

  Ann Richards

  Believe, Years, Gasoline Prices

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• I love Christmas music and there's nothing like getting together with friends at Christmas time to celebrate with music the incredible reality of the Savior's birth.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christmas, Reality, Together

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• I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

  Max Ernst

  Attending

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• Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Baby, Weekend

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• Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Bridges, Giving, Feelings

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.

  Ehud Olmert

  Believe, Reality, Destiny

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• I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth

  Paula Radcliffe

  New York, Winning, Thinking

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• It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would be late abortions - either occurring spontaneously or being induced deliberately in the second or third trimester of pregnancy - in order to prevent the birth of abnormal children.

  Ian Wilmut

  Children, Pregnancy, Thinking

  "Scientists blast human cloning plans". www.cnn.com. August 8, 2001.

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• For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.

  Otto Rank

  Mother, Children, Self

  Otto Rank Association, Otto Rank (1976). “Journal”

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• I was determined to experience the birth, and I am so scared at the thought of having my abdomen cut open. So I was lucky that the birth went very smoothly.

  Heidi Klum

  Cutting, Lucky, Abdomen

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• As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

  Chanakya

  Sweet, Son, Tree

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• Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

  Glen Hansard

  Gratitude, Team, Grateful

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• The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

  Avery Brundage

  Inspirational, Men, Yards

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• The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.

  Joan Miro

  World, Should

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• When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Real, Ancestry, Imaginary

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• Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.

  Claude Martin

  Country, Birth Rate, Higher

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• When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.

  Jackie Vernon

  Father, Trying, Three

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• To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Night, Sky

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• We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

  Shirley Franklin

  Past, Trying, Connections

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• Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Order, Baptism, Trying

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.306, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Children, Mean, Men

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to the Deity that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook of flesh and blood - was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Brother, Children

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