Birth Quotes

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Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which… — Michelangelo
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion… — Richard Whately
A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of… — Joseph Campbell
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements. — Sylvia Plath
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and… — Ezra Pound
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place… — Alberto Manguel
The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once. — Pietro Aretino
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. — Eugene Field
The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught,… — Clarence Day
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is… — Umberto Eco
Happy the heart where love has come to birth. — Teresa of Avila
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for… — Alfred de Vigny
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars… — Jean Genet
I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate. — Les Dawson
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all? — Christopher Fry
I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this… — Fareed Zakaria
In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience. — Gelett Burgess
East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in America. Of 66… — Jonathan Kozol
At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was… — Israel Shenker

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