Birth Quotes - Page 37

• In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Bridges, Space

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.47, Bantam

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• In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.

  John Masefield

  Mother, Dark, Men

  'C.L.M.' (1910)

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• The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?

  Sallust

  Stars, Father, Taken

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• You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  War, Ideas, Birth Rate

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• Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

  St. Jerome

  Angel, Ideas, Giving

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• The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and men. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love - and that love is the very breath of life. No one would say, 'I will breathe only when I am with my family and friends; I won't breathe in front of my enemies.' Similarly, for those in whom motherhood has awakened, love and compassion for everyone are as much part of their being as breathing.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Attitude, Motherhood, Love Is

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “The Awakening Of Universal Motherhood: Geneva Speech”, p.59, M A Center

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• The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

  Margaret Sanger

  Issues, Light, Understanding

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• Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mean, Birth Control

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mother, Birth Control, Fit

  "The Case for Birth Control," Physical Culture, Apr. 1917

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• As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

  Margaret Sanger

  Prayer, Heart, Feet

  Margaret Sanger (2012). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

  Vicki Baum

  Loyalty, Giving Up, Food

  Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”

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• Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.

  Christopher McDowell

  Life, Mother, Dream

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• Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.

  Connie Zweig

  Life, Lying, Fate

  Connie Zweig, Steven Wolf (2009). “Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life”, p.314, Wellspring/Ballantine

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• The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.

  Anthony Brandt

  Powerful, Years, Ties

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• From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

  Barbara Ascher

  Moving, Blood, Voyages

  Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins

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• High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

  William Warburton

  Proud, Ancestry, Boast

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• When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

  Mavis Leno

  Father, Believe, Merit

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• ... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year would see fewer of the unfit born, and finally none. But, it may be urged, this is legalized infanticide. Assuredly it is; and it is urgently needed.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Doctors, Years, Purpose

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• In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

  Shari Arison

  Spiritual, Book, Order

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• Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.

  Thom Yorke

  Kids, Eye, Government

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• I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Tunnels, Cities

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• Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Unique, Privilege, World

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• One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness

  Robert McNamara

  Mean, Birth Rate, Population

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• When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

  Mohsin Hamid

  People, Different, Needs

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• Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Practice, Matter

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