Birth Quotes - Page 6

• Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.

  Marsden Wagner

  Years, Healthy, Normal

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• Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Baby, Pregnancy

  Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

  William Wordsworth

  Inspirational, Baby, Sleep

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

  Edward Young

  Death, Fire, Dying

  "The Complaint, Or Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality".

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Afterlife, Infancy Is

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Birthday, Unique, May

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• It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Struggle, Growth, Mind

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• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Mother, Pay

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• One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Boys, Years, Birth Control

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• Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Creativity, Mean

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• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

  Jessica Lange

  Daughter, Mother, Men

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• That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Patriotic, Government

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

  Sophia Loren

  Wise, Two, Poverty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

  Bela Lugosi

  Imagination, Enemy, Betrayed

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• Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

  Carl Sandburg

  Art, Children, Pregnancy

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• And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

  Bodhidharma

  Long, Enlightenment, Subjects

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

  Bodhidharma

  Moving, Disappear, Appearing

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

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• A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

  Thomas Hood

  Names, Luck, Bad Luck

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.115

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• I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

  Bertrand Russell

  Population, Birth Control, Opponents

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Tears, Lap

  Lines on Wordsworth in 'Memorial Verses, April 1850' l. 47

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• The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

  Camille Paglia

  Miracle, Way

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Challenges, Cost, Study

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• Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Acorns, Breeze, Unnoticed

  1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

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