Birth Quotes - Page 27

• There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Blood, Voice, Knowing

  17 Copy quote

• [On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

  Princess Diana

  Father, Son, Ears

  5 Copy quote

• My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Views, Birth Control

  7 Copy quote

• [On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

  Joan Fontaine

  Daughter, Children, Giving

  6 Copy quote

• The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

  Thomas Malthus

  Population, Excess, Causes

  THOMAS MALTHUS, JULIAN HUXLEY, FREDERICK OSBORN (1960). “ON POPULATION THREE ESSAYS”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?

  Anna Howard Shaw

  War, Men, Two

  14 Copy quote

• Man with frailty is allied by birth.

  Robert Lowth

  Men, Frailty

  7 Copy quote

• Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Taught

  4 Copy quote

• The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Space

  4 Copy quote

• We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Space

  10 Copy quote

• Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Buddhism, Suffering

  4 Copy quote

• Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Mean, Buddhism

  7 Copy quote

• [On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Doors, People

  4 Copy quote

• Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his feelings are perhaps the most evanescent, the greater part dying in the moment of their birth. But while emotions perish, thought blended in diction is immortal.

  William Benton Clulow

  Men, Expression, Interesting

  4 Copy quote

• Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.

  Charles Rollin

  Men, Essence, Giving

  7 Copy quote

• The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.

  Alexander Zinoviev

  Men, Evil, Giving

  "Gorbachevism". Book by Gorbachevism, 5th article, 1988.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• we can search for and attain to only one being, that one which was given us, which is within us and which awaits its birth from ourselves. Each day I feel that I leave myself a little more, the better to go toward my encounter with myself.

  Georgette Leblanc

  Encounters, Each Day, Littles

  Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

  Riane Eisler

  Pain, Cells, Awe And Wonder

  16 Copy quote

• [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

  Riane Eisler

  Religious, Art, Love Life

  25 Copy quote

• The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.

  Riane Eisler

  Leader, Movement, Care

  18 Copy quote

• Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Influence, Hours, Humans

  7 Copy quote

• The first undeniable reality is that every living thing dies, and the second undeniable reality is that we suffer throughout our lives because we don't understand death. The truth derived from these two points is the importance of clarifying the matter of birth and death. The third undeniable reality is that all of the thoughts and feelings that arise in my head simply arise haphazardly, by chance. And the conclusion we can derive from that is not to hold on to all that comes up in our head. That is what we are doing when we sit zazen.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Death, Truth, Reality

  Kosho Uchiyama, Tom Wright, Jisho Warner (2004). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Children, Birth Control, Method

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.

  Florence Prag Kahn

  Law, Birth Control, Favors

  4 Copy quote

• ... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.

  Anne Ellis

  Boys, Practice, Birth Control

  Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source