Birth Quotes - Page 3

• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

  Nora Ephron

  Inspirational, Baby, Pregnancy

  Heartburn ch. 4 (1983)

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• Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?

  Sam Keen

  Children, Father, Simple

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• I have been vain since birth.

  Wallace Shawn

  Vain, Has Beens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

  Wallace Shawn

  Vanity, Years, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

  James Thurber

  Believe, Years, Long

  Quoted in Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks (eds) Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981).

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• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Umpires, White

  Guardian Weekly, London, April 8, 1984.

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• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  Mao Zedong

  Pregnancy, Long, May

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Equality, Men

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• To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

  Erich Fromm

  Hope, Mean, Hell

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.22, Lantern Books

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• When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  Nancy Friday

  Relationship, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Race, Friendly

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.145, e-artnow

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• We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

  Mary Antin

  Mom, Mother, Spiritual

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Ends, Yearning

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• By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Pregnancy, Common

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• If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

  Carol Burnett

  Pain, Pregnancy, Over You

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• For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pregnancy, Joyful, Conscious

  Sheila Kitzinger (1990). “The Experience of Childbirth”, Viking Press

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• Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

  Sophocles

  Gratitude, Giving

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• The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

  Madeline Tiger Bass

  Inspiring, Gratitude, Sweet

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• I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Political, Aristocracy

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Sensual, Truth Is

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• I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

  Jock Sturges

  Erotic, Sensual, Obvious

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• 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

  Laughter, Children, Giving

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• All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Aggravation, Language, Decline

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.44, Editorial MAXTOR

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• When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Broken Heart, Children, Broken Promises

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