Birth Quotes - Page 15

• As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

  Jon Jones

  Love, Lonely, Today

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• I like to take my time and not try to put too much pressure on myself, but it's hard. I think I forget every time - you give birth and you want your stomach to be flat again.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

  "Exclusive: Kourtney Kardashian On Keeping Up With Three Kids". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 7, 2015.

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• What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Land, Unqualified, Heritage

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Men, Opportunity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Waiting, Endurance

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• I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Believe, People, Joy

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.9

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• Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Eye, People, Bourgeoisie

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• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Powerful, Numbers, Oligarchy

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• Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.

  Frederick Osborn

  Abortion, Birth Control, Our Time

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• The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society

  Frederick Osborn

  Class, Important, Birth Control

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• The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Art, Real, Philosophy

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• Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again! I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity. Particularly, it was only Islam that provided satisfactory answer to the question relating to the birth of Christ. For the first time I was convinced about the religion itself. I pray my family members might appreciate these facts.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Appreciate, Islam, Answers

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• Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

  Nick Cave

  Mean, Sound, Should

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• Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  War, Healing, Mean

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• We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams. This might mean emptying our life of clutter such as wasted time, energy, resources, or draining relationships. These things can jeopardize our dreams by distracting us at a time when we should be more focused than ever.

  Christine Caine

  Dream, Mean, Might

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Jan 08, 2016

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• We offer you the landscape of your birth --
  Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame.
  We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth
  For killing what we cannot even name.

  Dana Gioia

  Names, Earth, Landscape

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.50, Macmillan

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• All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Soul, Expansion

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Elements, Mystery, Primal

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

  John F. Kennedy

  Land, Springtime, Affection

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.541, Best Books on

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• The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Eye, Dark

  1837 'At Bologna, In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections: Continued', l.12-14 (published 1842).

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• A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Causes, Merit, Fortune

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• I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Sacrifice, Moments

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, Mind, Firsts

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 55), 1931.

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• True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

  William Faulkner

  Poetry, Heaven, Earth

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• The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Breathing, Cities, Space

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.524

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