Birth Quotes
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The emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.
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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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There is strong archaeological evidence to show that with the birth of human consciousness there was born, like a twin, the impulse to transcend it.
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I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana
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My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.
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There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.
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To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
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In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.
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They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
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The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.
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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.
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Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
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The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.
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Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.
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A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.
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Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.
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Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.
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There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.
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If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.
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The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
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Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.
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High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.
