Birth Quotes · Page 67

The central question for American politics right now is how did the country that elected Barack Obama elect Donald Trump. There's a…

— Chris Hayes

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

— M. Scott Peck

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

— Ina May Gaskin

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

— Ralph H. Baer

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a…

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities…

— Iris Murdoch

I would want them to really think about how amazing they are and how lucky they are to be a woman. And…

— Beyonce Knowles

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

— Aristotle

As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“No solitude, no birth.”

— Sunday Adelaja

What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now.

— Samantha Shannon

All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the…

— Thrity Umrigar

“I imagine she came out of the birth canal holding a cupcake and a spatula.”

— Katja Millay

I remind myself, there is a beginning and an end to all things.

— Syesha Mercado

You've got to wake up every morning and believe, 'I was born to do this.'

— Holt McCallany

And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the…

— Ezra Taft Benson

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

— Mohsin Hamid

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,

— Frederick Leboyer

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I've never been universally loved from the beginning.

— Joe Bonamassa

For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs…

— Gregory of Nyssa

Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right…

— Nick Cave

A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment.…

— Frederick Lenz

My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.

— Lee Trevino

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because…

— Umberto Eco

The new born angel shall bring in loads of happy and memorable times in your life. Congratulations on the arrival of your…

— Anonymous

I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I…

— Lucas Samaras

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

— Shashi Deshpande

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even…

— Egon Schiele

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of…

— Malcolm X

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

— Terry Pratchett

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

— Swami Vivekananda

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place…

— Italo Calvino

I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One…

— H. L. Mencken

The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first…

— Bill Gates

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three…

— Jodi Picoult

She was born in the Objective case.

— Harper Lee