Birth Quotes - Page 28

• Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

  Debra Evans

  Dream, Expectations, Heaven

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• Conflict begins at the moment of birth.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Conflict, Moments

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• The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.

  Doreen Valiente

  Spring, Loss, Winter

  Doreen Valiente (2018). “Witchcraft for Tomorrow”, p.165, The Crowood Press

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• [On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.

  Edith Roosevelt

  Children, Names, Publicity

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• men are not born with a faculty for the universal and ... women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The universal has been, and is continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.

  Monique Wittig

  Philosophy, Men, Class

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.

  Mayim Bialik

  Mom, Pregnancy, Book

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• The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

  Ruth Benedict

  Community, Culture, Shapes

  Patterns of Culture ch. 1 (1934)

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• I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.

  Moby

  Cities, Nyc, Most Amazing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• We hail the return of the day of thy birth,
  Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans
  Where men from the farthest dominions of earth
  Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions;
  Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right,
  Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight;
  Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be
  An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.

  Abraham Coles

  Freedom, Father, Ocean

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.

  Susan Cheever

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

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• It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Death, Analysis, Mystery

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.297, tredition

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• once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall.

  Martha Ostenso

  Men, Hands, Teeth

  Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd

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• Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

  Frederic Henry Hedge

  Death, This Life, Embryos

  Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.155

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• [Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Sex, Two, People

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• Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Car, Soul

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• From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.

  Nancy Mairs

  Class, Two, Different

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• It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.

  E.W. Jackson

  Birth Defects, Principles, Sin

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• The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Strong, Men, Emotional

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Consistency, New Things, Contraceptives

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• I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

  Linda Sunshine

  Family, Motherhood, Giving

  Linda Sunshine (1987). “The memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing up in New Jersey”, Fireside

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• There are no illegitimate babies.

  Merrit Malloy

  Baby

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• You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Giving, Done, Might

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.

  Wendy Farley

  Optimistic, Wings, Joy

  Wendy Farley (2005). “The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth”, p.16, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

  Sadao Araki

  Foundation, Crowns, Empires

  "Sun's Son's Son". "TIME" Magazine, January 1, 1934.

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• Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.

  African Spir

  Men, Law, Done

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 36), 1937.

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