#Birth Quotes

“Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.”

“A living thing is born.”

“When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.”

“I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.”

“How could passion run so deepHad I never thoughtThat the crime of being bornBlackens all our lot?”

“In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.”

“Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.”

“June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.”

“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”

“Between urine and filth we are born.”

“Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.”

“Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.”

“Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.”

“Every man is an impossibility until he is born.”

“What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?”

“I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.”

“when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.”

“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”

“I was the world's ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody.”

“Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.”

“Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.”

“What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.”

“Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.”

“I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.”

“It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.”

“I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me." "What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.”

“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.”

“I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.”

“Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.”

“Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.”

“Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.”

“Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.”

“Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.”

“Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.”

“At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.”

“It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.”

“Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.”

“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.”

“There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.”

“What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.”