Birth quotes and Sayings

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Laurence Housman

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin

I’m not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
Madonna

Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett

There are but 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

Your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.
Smiley Blanton

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Bible: John

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John Milton

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Horace

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the Thou shouldst not grieve.
Bhagavad Gita

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

A name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth.
Thomas Hood

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emile M. Cioran

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light
George Lillo

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
Edward Young

On the birth of her 2nd son Owen. ‘I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!’
Ricki Lake

I was famous from birth.
Peter Fonda

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 physicalbirth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin

Death borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave
Joseph Hall

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

without darkness
Nothing comes to birth,
As without light
Nothing flowers.
May Sarton

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.
Barbara Katz Rothman

Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.
M. Wagner

There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don’t ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it.
Sheryl Feldman