Birth Quotes - Page 8

• Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Pregnancy, Giving, Perspective

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• The moment you're born you're done for.

  Arnold Bennett

  Giving, Done, Moments

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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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• It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women

  Michel Odent

  Emotional, Roles, Care

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• A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

  Eda LeShan

  Inspiring, Dream, Baby

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Witty, Happy Mothers Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

  Sigmund Freud

  Anxiety, Firsts, Source

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1959). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pregnancy, Self, Defense

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.815, Open Road Media

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• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

  Dean Koontz

  Small Changes, Storm, World

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.327, Bantam

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• Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

  Douglas Horton

  Funny Life, Born

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

  Robert Frost

  Birth Life, Earth, Mystery

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Different, Tongue

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.126

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• I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

  Simin Daneshvar

  Running, Wish, World

  "Savushun". Book by Simin Daneshvar, www.theguardian.com. 1969.

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• For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

  William Blake

  Life, Growth, Delight

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.243, Wordsworth Editions

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• Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

  May Sarton

  Love, Inspirational, Flower

  May Sarton, Marilyn Kallet (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.138, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

  Dale Dauten

  Government, Giving, Stubborn

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• When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

  Rajneesh

  Being Alone, Circles, Eternal Love

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• We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

  Joanna Lumley

  Pregnancy, Eight, Males

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• True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

  Harold Brodkey

  Long Ago, People, Stories

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• The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into birth if they want their birth to be natural. Making choices of where and with whom to birth is not the same as bringing knowledge and skills into your birth regardless of where and with whom you birth.

  Michel Odent

  Responsibility, Skills, Choices

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• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  Barry White

  Music, Baby, Nice

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

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• There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Life, Women, Two

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.194, Macmillan

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• There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

  William Barclay

  Inspirational, Life, Happy Birthday

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• ...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong and therefore makes society strong.

  Marsden Wagner

  Strength, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake.

  David Benatar

  Life, Baby, Sex

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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