Birth Quotes
Sad Quotes about Birth

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb

Careers and relationships also have their cycles
of birth, growth, and death -
to be followed by rebirth and the renewal of the cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh

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.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
- T. S. Eliot

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk.
It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- Jean Cocteau

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit,
who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth,
and without light nothing flowers.
- May Sarton

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat
to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
- Robert Bolt

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
- Erma Bombeck

Only mothers can think of the future -
because they give birth to it in their children.
- Maxim Gorky

The main facts in human life are five:
birth,
food, sleep, love and death.
- E. M. Forster

Without this playing with fantasy,
no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of
the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
- Arlo Guthrie

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize
our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
- John Clayton

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more
completely human traits are now born.
- G. Stanley Hall

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
- Bryant H. McGill

When you cry and weep,
when you are miserable,
you are alone.
When you celebrate,
the whole existence participates with you.
Only in celebration
do we meet the ultimate, the eternal.
Only in celebration
do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.
- Osho

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
- Dale Dauten

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
- Joseph Hall

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
- Nicole Appleton

Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy,
and I loved giving birth.
It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.
- Ashlee Simpson

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.
- Liv Ullmann

In Goddess religion death is not feared,
but is understood to be a part of life,
followed by birth and renewal.
- Carol P. Christ

We are African in origin and American in birth.
- Timothy Thomas Fortune

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly,
and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
- Georg Brandes

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos
of man's experience and emotion,
from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.
- Len G. Murray

It is futile to talk too much about the past...
like trying to make birth control retroactive.
- Charles Erwin Wilson

When the mother of the race is free,
we shall have a better world,
by the easy right of birth and by the calm,
slow, friendly forces of evolution.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

My life comes down to three moments:
the death of my father,
meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter.
Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
- Gwyneth Paltrow

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth,
a high IQ, or in talent.
The winner's edge is all in the attitude,
not aptitude.
Attitude is the criterion for success.
- Denis Waitley

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal
immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
- John Linder

My natural mother died one month after I was born,
apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
- Koichi Tanaka

Every man should see the birth of his children.
- Dennis Banks

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death,
yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
- Thornton Wilder

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth,
there can be no objection why that also may not be
reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
- John Aubrey

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives.
You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before
you can remember your own birth.
- Leonard Orr

Personality is immediately apparent,
from birth,
and I don't think it really changes.
- Meryl Streep

From birth to death, anyone can fish.
I just think it's fantastic to see old people going
fishing with young people and teaching them things.
I'm very, very critical.
- Rex Hunt

The birth of the African Union should encourage us
to reexamine relations between African States.
- Omar Bongo

We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine
because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards.
They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.
- Joanna Lumley

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to
their children than fathers:
it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and
are more certain that they are their own.
- Aristotle

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing.
Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
- Ginger Baker

The truth is that from birth on we are,
to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
- Jock Sturges

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth -
soft in the head.
- Andrei Platonov

Buddhas move freely through birth and death,
appearing and disappearing at will.
- Bodhidharma

Birth on U.S.
territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
- Phyllis Schlafly

Hi, I'm Bill.
I'm a birth survivor.
- Bill Maher

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds,
there is a woman giving birth to a child.
She must be found and stopped.
- Sam Levenson

Shadow owes its birth to light.
- John Gay

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious,
which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or
inherently sensual from birth.
- Jock Sturges

A theory can be proved by experiment;
but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
- Manfred Eigen

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying,
but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
- Lady Gregory

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating
the child one has borne even when injured by it.
- Sophocles

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive
her for giving him birth.
The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch
has borne strange fruit through the years.
- Lillian Smith

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a
sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
- Virginia Woolf

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth,
my mother began systematically preparing for her own death.
She was fatalistic.
- Lorna Luft

The day of my birth, my death began its walk.
It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- Jean Cocteau

There should be weeping at a man's birth,
not at his death.
- Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame
and recognition in the city of my birth.
- Leon Askin

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

Our birth is nothing but our death begun,
As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
- Edward Young

Probably one of the happiest moments,
outside the birth of all of my kids,
was the first time we won an Emmy,
that the show won an Emmy.
That was a big night.
- Dick Van Dyke

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social
crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the
birth pangs of a new order.
- Christopher Lasch

And as long as you're subject to birth and death,
you'll never attain enlightenment.
- Bodhidharma

I was blessed with a birth and a death,
and I guess I just want some say in between.
- Ani DiFranco