Birth Quotes - Page 9

• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

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• Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Education, Children, Wall

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• Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Women, Pregnancy

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• Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

  Randy Alcorn

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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• Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

  Robin Lim

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Profound

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• All birth is unwilling.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Unwilling

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• I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

  Carl Sandburg

  Reality, Men, Order

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• The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Born, Best Things

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• I am! I have come through! I belong!

  Carl Sandburg

  Carl Sandburg. (1954). “The Family of Man”

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• For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Guests, May, Tables

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• Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.

  H. L. Mencken

  Encouragement, Birth Rate, Democracy

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• All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

  Joseph Epstein

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Opposites

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• The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'

  Gisele Bundchen

  Baby, Powerful, Pain

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• It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

  Julie Walters

  Strong, Kids, Watches

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

  John Aubrey

  May, Happy Day, Remarkable

  John Aubrey (1857). “Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects”, p.4

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• They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Principles, Recycling, Failing

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• No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.

  Walter Lippmann

  Average, Sea, Way

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• For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Philosophy, Men, Light

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• Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Real, Pregnancy, Giving

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• Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

  Georg Brandes

  Children, House

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

  W. H. Davies

  Rainbow, Lovely, Hue

  'Kingfisher' (1910)

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• We are African in origin and American in birth.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

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• GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Generosity, Noble

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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