Birth Quotes - Page 23

• Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Pain, Moving

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• The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong.

  Frank Bartleman

  Strong, Movement, Today

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• Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

  Robin Lim

  Baby, Forgotten, Significant

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• Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Past, Tree, Culture

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• Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.

  Florence Nightingale

  World, May, Productions

  Florence Nightingale (1993). “Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought”, NYU Press

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• No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

  Liya Kebede

  Country, Giving, Birth Life

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

  Liya Kebede

  Mom, Care, Might

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• When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mother, Baby, Two

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• Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.

  Marcus Sedgwick

  Hero, Character, Bridges

  Marcus Sedgwick (2010). “Blood Red, Snow White: n/a”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the beginning of life; the beginning of mothering, and of fathering. We all deserve a good beginning.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Giving, Body, Capacity

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• I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'

  Vicky Hartzler

  Baby, Book, Mean

  "Obama Birth Certificate: Missouri Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler Expresses Doubt" by John Celock, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Luck cannot change birth.

  Horace

  Luck

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• All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
  [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

  Horace

  Money, Powerful, Giving

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• Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
  [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
  Fortuna non mutat genus.]

  Horace

  Money, Proud, Fortune

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• I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Travel, Men

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1546, Delphi Classics

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• For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Evil, Giving

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Mother, Men, Enemy

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• While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.

  Anais Nin

  Mother, Father, People

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• Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

  William Hazlitt

  Destiny, Birth Place, Ties

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.84

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• An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Clouds, Gambling, Envy

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• The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Baby, Children, Father

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.237, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Differences, Land

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.4192, e-artnow

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• Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
  Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

  William Shakespeare

  Abuse, Juliet, Stumbling

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I still take the pill. I don't want any more grandchildren.

  Phyllis Diller

  Grandchildren, Pills, Birth Control

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• Once my husband said to me, 'I'm going to have some coffee. Do you want me to put some hot water on for you?' I thought that was the least he could do considering I was giving birth.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Coffee, Giving

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