Birth Quotes - Page 7

• Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

  Carol Burnett

  Funny, Witty, Children

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• Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

  Wilford Brimley

  Might, Wells, Accidents

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• Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

  Carl Sandburg

  Art, Children, Pregnancy

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• High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Challenges, Cost, Study

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• There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Pain, Men

  'Les Caractéres ou les moeurs de ce siécle' (1688) 'De l'homme'

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• There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

  Penelope Leach

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

  Penelope Leach (1989). “Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?

  Samuel Rogers

  Echoes, Youth, Arabian

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.93

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• My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Mother, Giving, Age

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

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Dying, Borders

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.175

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• We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Birthday, Education, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.17, eKitap Projesi

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• Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.

  Janet Schwegel

  Pregnancy, Later In Life, Years

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• Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Pinnacle, Knows

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• Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can be. Let me tell you, it is. It's brutal sometimes! But, if I did it, ANYONE can do it. I mean, I always knew I was meant to do something really BIG in life, and now I know that this was it. Screw winning an Academy Award someday ... I GAVE BIRTH

  Jenny McCarthy

  Mother, Pregnancy, Mean

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• Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Inspirational, Generations, Body

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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.

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Innovation, Growth

  "Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici".

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• My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

  William Blake

  Birthday, Mother, Father

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Infant Sorrow'

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• He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Life, Mother, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from May 11, 2014

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• Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Struggle, Men

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• According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE

  Barbara Seaman

  Pregnancy, Men, Doctors

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• Birth is the epicenter of women's power

  Ani DiFranco

  Pregnancy, Inspirational Pregnancy, Pregnant Inspirational

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• And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?

  Margaret Cho

  Gun, Waiting, Forever

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• Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?

  Benny Hill

  Birth Control, Favour, Abstinence

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• If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.

  Christiane Northrup

  Next Week, Giving, Body

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• Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

  Erich Fromm

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

  Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

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• Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

  Ellis Peters

  Hero, Expectations, Coward

  Ellis Peters (2014). “Dead Man's Ransom”, p.8, Head of Zeus

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