Birth Quotes

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Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the… — Brad Pitt
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self. — William Butler Yeats
But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.… — Tom Robbins
The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women.… — Mitch Albom
Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. — Robert A. Heinlein
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a… — Shirley Jackson
Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave… — Fernando Pessoa
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse… — Malcolm X
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does… — Thomas Merton
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. — Erma Bombeck
I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and… — Jeffrey Eugenides
All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps… — Thrity Umrigar
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten… — Robert Jordan
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace… — Cormac McCarthy
The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick. — Jack Kerouac
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good… — Robert Cormier
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth… — Jostein Gaarder

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