Unborn Quotes - Page 9

• A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

  Russell Hoban

  Baby, Art, Philosophy

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz”, p.114, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason.

  Saint Basil

  Justice, Abortion, Fetus

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• Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Evil, Want

  Dean Koontz (2010). “Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, Book 3)”, p.36, HarperCollins UK

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• I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Abortion, Suffering

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• If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.

  Greg Koukl

  Abortion, Adequate, Justification

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• Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.

  Samuel Adams

  Perseverance, Rights, Suffering

  Essay in The Boston Gazette under the pseudonym "Candidus", October 14, 1771.

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• One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Choices, Destroying

  "A Last Survey - Part I". The Ayn Rand Letter, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1975.

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• Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mother, Children, Caring

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• Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Law, Abortion

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• I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

  Parker Posey

  Children, Powerful, Nice

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• The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

  George Washington

  Army, Fate, Hands

  Address to the Continental Army before the Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776.

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• Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

  Alan Paton

  Running, Country, Children

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.

  Birch Bayh

  Baby, School, Government

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• We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.

  Bernard Lown

  Inspiring, Past, Humanity

  Bernard Lown's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.

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• Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Night, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.214, Virginia Woolf

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• When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pain, Long, Abortion

  Address to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, delivered 30 January 1984, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

  Edmund Burke

  Carpe Diem, Pact, Carpe

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• I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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• It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stars, Children, Distance

  "Transcript for the Piece Audio version of A Wizard of Earthsea: A Big Read Documentary". www.prx.org.

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• To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Watches, Innocent, Wisps

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Deadeye Dick”, Delacorte Press

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• Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Meditation, Needs, Behaviour

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• There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Moving, Generations

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.90, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Song, Years

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XL: A Message Came”

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• I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?" The Glass Rainbow, p. 138

  James Lee Burke

  Dream, Men, Space

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mirrors, Waiting, Shadow

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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