Birth Quotes - Page 26

• Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Artist, Giving, Pieces

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• I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Party, Motherhood, Thinking

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• Birth, not death, is the hard loss.

  Louise Glück

  Loss, Hard

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• Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth,
  Man's resurrection, and the future's bud
  Shroud in their births.

  Henry Vaughan

  Morning, Men, Firsts

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

  Arianna Huffington

  Winning, Equality, Law

  Arianna Huffington (2004). “Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People”, Miramax Books

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• Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured of good care and a sound education that will enable them to face the challenges of a changing world.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Mother, Children

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

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• the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

  Margaret Millar

  Emotion, Primitive

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• Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  People, Waiting, Special

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Two, Ciphers, Ancestry

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.58

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• Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

  Eleanor Clark

  Abortion, Criminals, Birth Control

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Thinking, Doe, Affair

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.189, Northwestern University Press

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• Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Wise, Mother, Son

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• Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

  Louise Erdrich

  Power, Bloodline

  "Love Medicine". Book by Louise Erdrich, 1984.

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• Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

  Harriet Martineau

  America, Republic, Aristocracy

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.117

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• Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprème de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croûtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Beautiful, Thinking, Twists

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

  Rumer Godden

  Firsts, First Time, New Places

  Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable. And quite right too. You give birth to them. You do not design them.

  Penelope Lively

  Children, Giving, Design

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• A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.

  Virgilia Peterson

  Girl, Mother, Hypocrisy

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

  Faye Wattleton

  Rights, Birth Control, Able

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• All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Death, Order, Dying

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• I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Wise, Wisdom, Pain

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• humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

  Constance Rourke

  Fashion, Humor, Opposites

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• Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Powerful, Life Changing, Simple

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• Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Order, Play, Giving

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

  Lucy Stone

  Truth, Years, Birth Place

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