Birth Quotes - Page 2

• I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Crush, Hope

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Death

  Song: Wake Up Dead, Album: Mystic Journey, 1996

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• We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Speak, Born

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.340, eKitap Projesi

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• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Teenager, Born, Adolescence

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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• From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time magazine, March 28, 1960.

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• I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.

  Michel Odent

  Baby, Pregnancy, Book

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• Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

  Robert Delaunay

  Light, Painting, Impressionism

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• Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

  Pliny the Elder

  Miscarriage, Son, Thinking

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• The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1861). “Bacon's Essays”, p.137

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• About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

  Kin Hubbard

  People, Favors, Storks

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• The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.

  Clarence Day

  Eggs, Ancestry, Source

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• What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Ancestry, Stains

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.3

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• However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Thought Provoking

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• Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they said nothing or acted neutral, most women didn't. Finally, when obstetricians discouraged VBAC in women who wanted to try it, none of them did.

  Henci Goer

  Believe, Doctors, Trying

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Elephants

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• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Night, Light

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

  Meryl Streep

  Thinking, Personality

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• Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

  Plutarch

  Merit, Fine Things, Ancestor

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• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Memorable, Fool

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [187]

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• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Good Morning, Death

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Should, Weeping

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• Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Death, Moving, Two

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• When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

  Eda LeShan

  Single, Self Esteem, Loneliness

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  Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Strong, Pregnancy

  Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Sleep, Afterlife

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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