Birth Quotes
2462 quotes by 1595 authors
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For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do…
— Sheila Kitzinger
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Birth is the epicenter of women's power
— Ani DiFranco
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I would want them to really think about how amazing they are and how lucky they are to be a woman. And how powerful they…
— Beyonce Knowles
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Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair
— Trevor Jones
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Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including…
— Watchman Nee
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I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary…
— William Gaddis
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There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.
— Jonas Salk
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Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger, A…
— Henry Van Dyke
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It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual…
— Gloria Steinem
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People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women…
— Dustin Lance Black
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The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape…
— J. G. Ballard
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In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death.
— Janet Burroway
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
— Sophocles
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And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One,…
— Gautama Buddha
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Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a…
— Gautama Buddha
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This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of…
— Gautama Buddha
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Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind…
— Gautama Buddha
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Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should…
— Gautama Buddha
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[After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You…
— Jennifer Lopez
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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we…
— Plato
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