Birth Quotes - Page 29

• Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

  Douglas McGregor

  Animal, Men, Needs

  Douglas McGregor, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (2006). “The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

  Sonia Sanchez

  People, Giving, Relationships With Others

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• Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.

  Wendy Davis

  Real, Cancer, Advice

  "It's the real Texans who count" by Wendy Davis, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

  Nick Nolte

  Violence, Chance, Violent

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• My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

  Debra Winger

  Children, Grandmother, Long

  "Why I quit Hollywood" by Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2002.

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• My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, Swings, Scorpios

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• My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Girl, School, Numbers

  "Elizabeth Banks on Becoming a Director, Mentoring Young Women". Interview with Alex Stedman, variety.com. June 5, 2015.

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• The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

  Horace

  Mountain, Littles, Absurd

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• Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth,
  Near to the king in blood, and near in love
  Till you did make him misinterpret me--
  Have stooped my neck under your injuries
  And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
  Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
  Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
  Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
  From my own windows torn my household coat,
  Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
  Save men's opinions and my living blood,
  To show the world I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.311, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Humble, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.291, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

  John Milton

  Stars, Heaven, Unseen

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.471, Mercer University Press

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• In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread,
  Till thou return unto the ground; for thou
  Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth,
  For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

  John Milton

  Art, Taken, Dust

  John Milton (1750). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton”, p.235

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• I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

  Constance Marie

  Coffee, Birth Defects, Mercury

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• The thing I've done the best in this world is giving birth to Saet Byul. I can't imagine my world without her

  Kim Soo-hyun

  Giving, Done, World

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• natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.

  Christiane Northrup

  Life Changing, Natural, Magnificent

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• I tell you to keep going, not because it's easy. Not because it doesn't hurt. I tell you to keep going because there's no other way. To stop is to die. Life is in motion. In growth. In change. Life is in seeking and in finding. Life is in redemption. Each moment is a new birth. A new chance to come back, to get it right.
  A new chance to make it better.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurt, Life Changing, Growth

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• I, woman, give birth: and this time to myself.

  Alma Luz Villanueva

  Giving

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• A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.

  Jean Hersey

  New Year, Spring, Valentine

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• Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

  Jessica Raine

  Birth And Death, Countryside

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• The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Children, Humor

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• Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of his life never allowed him the freedom of choice. He might perhaps sincerely have preferred the groves of the Academy and the society of Athens; but he was constrained, at first by the will, and afterwards by the injustice of Constantius, to expose his person and fame to the dangers of Imperial greatness; and to make himself accountable to the world and to posterity for the happiness of millions.

  Edward Gibbon

  Retirement, Philosophy, Greatness

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1005, e-artnow

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• But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.

  Edward Gibbon

  Regret, Escaping, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.100

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• Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.

  Aristotle

  Education, Mother, Children

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.208, Princeton University Press

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• All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

  Aristotle

  Children, Animal, Brave

  Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

  St. Jerome

  Religious, Giving, Novelty

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