Birthing Quotes - Page 2

• From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

  Barbara Ascher

  Moving, Blood, Voyages

  Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins

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• Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.

  Israel Horovitz

  Beach, Art, Writing

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• If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!

  Phil Robertson

  Baby, Men, People

  Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.

  Diet Eman

  Girl, Mother, Pain

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• In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!

  Heath Ledger

  Stupid, Mean, Men

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

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• People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too.

  Michel Odent

  Running, People, Water

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• Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.

  Linda Hogan

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Fun, School, Humor

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• Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Waiting

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “Many Waters”, p.289, Macmillan

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• Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Men, Thinking

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• I don’t know nothing about birthing puppies, Miss Scarlett, but I can cleave the head off a Daimon without breaking a sweat. (Valerius)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sweat, Missing, Puppy

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• In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn’t it? (Fang)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Age, Twenties

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.347, Macmillan

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• Menoeceus is a great name. (Astrid) For an old man or a feminine hygiene product. Not for my son. And next time I get to name the kid and it won’t be something that sounds like meningitis. (Zarek) You keep that up and next time you’ll be the one birthing it, and don’t mess with me, bucko, I have connections in that department. A pregnant man is not an impossibility in my neighborhood. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Son, Men

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• Everything is gestation and then birthing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Gestation

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna

  Sister Souljah

  Caring, Sky, Breathing

  Sister Souljah (2014). “A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.

  Amy Wright

  Spiritual, Emotional, Giving

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• It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A world that does not preserve the planet, does not know God the creator. A world that does not honor the spirit of compassion, does not know God the spirit. God the lawgiver, God the judge, God the omnipotent being have consumed Western spirituality and, in the end, shriveled its heart.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Mother, Heart, Compassion

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• I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.

  Lucretius

  Wind, Light, Air

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• The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

  Alexandra Fuller

  War, Fighting, Men

  Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Talking, Civilization

  Brown Daily Herald, March 24, 1995.

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• Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

  Van Jones

  Fighting, Leader, Environmental

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• It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Writing, Son, Garden

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• The cause I am most passionate about is natural birthing. I had my son at home, and it was the most primal, intuitive, empowering, and loving experience I've ever had.

  Zoe McLellan

  Home, Son, Empowering

  "NCIS: New Orleans Actor Zoe McLellan: The Inspiration Equation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The Holy Spirit began to move mightily. As we continued to worship, I sensed that the birthing spirit was sweeping over us and more prophetic utterance came forth. I began to declare to the people that the Lord was birthing the Third Reformation in our midst. Several began to actually sense birthing pains. Several had visions of what was taking place and others saw angels ministering in our midst. I encouraged everyone to press in to God and make sure they received the birthing within their lives.

  Bill Hamon

  Pain, Moving, Angel

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• You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.

  Pearl Cleage

  Buddhist, Believe, Privacy

  Pearl Cleage (2009). “I Wish I Had a Red Dress”, p.27, Harper Collins

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