Birth Quotes

• It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Beginnings

• Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

  

  Joseph Hall
  • Death
  • Grave
  • Cradle

• Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Danger
  • Birth
  • Sorrows

• I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Powerful
  • Weak
  • Strive

• What I learned from my son's birth is that fearing the future is normal but a waste of time.

  

  Eva Amurri
  • Learned
  • Birth
  • Waste Of Time

• I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal desires or crises we have faced, I've never forgotten that this is the time to celebrate the birth of the Baby Jesus, and the impact of this event on the history of the world.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Christmas
  • Baby Jesus
  • Religious significance

• The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Birth
  • Limit
  • Laws of Nature

• Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Earth
  • Giving
  • Struggle

• Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Birth
  • Sassy
  • Worms

• I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • War
  • Given
  • Twins

• Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Men
  • Quality
  • Easy

• Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

  

  Plutarch
  • Birth
  • Merit
  • Ancestors

• I was assigned boy at birth but I have always known I was a girl.

  

  Geena Rocero
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Birth

• Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Idea
  • Birth
  • Violent

• The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.

  

  Nicole Maines
  • Identity
  • Gender
  • Assigned

• The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Purpose
  • Birth
  • Our Lives

• But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

  

  Sophocles
  • Children
  • Birth
  • Enemies

• The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Art
  • Birth

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

  

  Robert Frost
  • Earth
  • Mystery
  • Birth

• The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Understand
  • Birth
  • Sinners

• You can't evade a thing. Those who try to get around it are weak. Those who meet it gallantly are strong. So many women try to dodge life. They don't economize because it's inconvenient. They don't work because it's tiring. They don't have a child because it's painful. They don't look at the dead because it's saddening. Face them all, Laura. Face them squarely and meet them gallantly... as your grandmother did. For every one of the old experiences will be there... birth... marriage... death... disappointment... grief... little joys... little sorrows. You'll have to meet them all. It's part of the story...

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Life
  • Child
  • Sorrows

• Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Suffering
  • Birth

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