Civilized Quote by Henry David Thoreau

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

— Clarence Darrow

After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being.

— Jerome Lejeune

Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a…

— Willard Gaylin

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new…

— Frederic Henry Hedge

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

— Philip Sidney

The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming…

— Peter L. Berger

“Nature vs. Nurture? The Creator created us and knew us before we were in the womb, and He continues to create us throughout our…

— Gina Turner

Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

— Charles Darwin

The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet.…

— Ina May Gaskin

“Human being are ultimately nothing but carriers - passageways - for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation."…

— Haruki Murakami

BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book.

— Bill Hicks