Birth Quotes

• Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Work
  • Long
  • May

• Yes, yes I am ill. I go in for the kill. Hoes is my sons, birth control, I am on the pill

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Control
  • Son
  • Ill

• If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Producers

• What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Nature
  • Jesus

• It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Able
  • Mystery
  • Witness

• I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Me
  • Birth

• Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Way
  • Birth
  • Gender

• Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Child

• I'd like to put the record straight about that. I've been labelled an irresponsible role model for young mothers, but none of it is true. I couldn't even walk for two weeks after the birth, let alone exercise. I ate very healthily all the way through my pregnancy and afterwards. I didn't do anything extreme.

  

  Anna Friel
  • True
  • Mother
  • Alone

• Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Empty
  • Flesh

• Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Education
  • Stupid

• I think with each generation comes more opportunity. At least that's the way that I see it. I grew up in a generation that watched the birth of the internet. We all have. But I feel like I look around at the generation younger than me and it's a very opportunistic mantra.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Ability
  • Birth
  • Doubts

• I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Good
  • God
  • Daily

• The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.

  

  Christopher Hampton
  • Sunday
  • Lunch
  • Royal Court

• My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hate
  • Enemy
  • Romance

• There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• We are African in origin and American in birth.

  

  Timothy Thomas Fortune
  • Birth

• A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Home
  • Beautiful
  • Moments

• Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • Important
  • Money
  • Today

• If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go – within 10 minutes – to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

  

  Luke Scott
  • Born
  • Pick
  • Accuses

• Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Pain
  • Achieve
  • Womb

• Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Way
  • Stress
  • Crying

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