Birth Quotes - Page 28

• Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital births introduces risks or the home environment promotes problem-free labors.

  Henci Goer

  Home, Risk, May

  Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.334, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity.

  Johannes Kepler

  Creating, Humanity, Mind

  "Kepler, Four Hundred Years" edited by Arthur and Peter Beer, 1975.

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• I just heard about a woman in Germany who just gave birth to a baby boy named "Jihad." Or as the TSA put it, "Hope you like Amtrak!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Baby, Boys, Tsa

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• You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.

  Pamela Anderson

  Children, Moving, Kids

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• The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Sight, Blossoming, Sun

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1999). “The Complete Poems of Sarah Orne Jewett”, Ironweed PressInc

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• How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly?

  Salman Rushdie

  Betrayal, Fall, Angel

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessing, Perfect, Peaceful

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Children, Father, Blessed

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.83

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• In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Air, Water

  George Henry Lewes (1860). “Studies in animal life”, p.10

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• Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period when Observation, Induction, and Deduction were first employed, its birth must be referred to that comparatively recent period when the mind, rejecting the primitive tendency to seek in supernatural agencies for an explanation of all external phenomena, endeavoured, by a systematic investigation of the phenomena themselves to discover their invariable order and connection.

  George Henry Lewes

  Agency, Order, Mind

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.26, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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• Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

  Jane Chen

  Baby, Years, Risk

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• The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Country, Believe

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Women, Hate

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• The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wells

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.

  Marianne Moore

  Heaven, Black, Magic

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.260, Penguin

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• Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Doe, Naked

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1957). “Natural History: An Account by a Roman of what Romans Knew and Did and Valued”

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• While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.

  John Dewey

  Plato, Fall, Small Numbers

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.68, 谷月社

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• Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

  Aristotle

  Parent, Birth Control, Poverty

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle,

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• It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Civilization, Giving

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.

  George Washington

  Love, Passion, Growth

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beauty, Dream, Art

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.366

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• Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so tenaciously withheld from the working women - brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.

  Margaret Sanger

  Class, Community, Birth Control

  Margaret Sanger (1922). “Woman, morality, and birth control”

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• If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Would Be, Birth Control

  "Women Superior - That's No Garbage". New York Times News Service, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 06, 1986.

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• The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with those who are by birth and nature new. So far as politics is concerned, this involves of course a serious misconception: instead of joining with one's equals in assuming the effort of persuasion and running the risk of failure, there is dictatorial intervention, based upon the absolute superiority of the adult, and the attempt to produce the new as a fait accompli, that is, as though the new already existed.

  Hannah Arendt

  Running, Political, Effort

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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