Birth Quotes

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.

Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.

From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.

Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.

You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.

The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had.

In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

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

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.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

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.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

I don't know where [Obama is from] I don't think he's from where they issue birth certificates – I think he's from Hell.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

Taking action births motivation.

Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.