Birth quotes and Sayings


It is natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon

When we are born we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
Mahatma Gandhi

Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three-score and ten years that follow it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.
William Wordsworth

He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

If men had to have babies they would only ever have one each.
Diana

If you lay down, the baby will never come out!
Native American saying

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizner

In men nine out of ten abdominal tumors are malignant; in women nine out of ten abdominal swellings are the pregnant uterus.
Rutherford Morison

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.
James Whistler

Birth does not lead to greatness; but the cultivation of virtues by a person leads him to greatness.
Anonymous

Parturition is a physiological process - the same in the countess and in the cow.
W. W. Chipman

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.
Erich Fromm

I’ll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.
Beatrice Lillie

For man’s greatest crime is to have been born.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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

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

For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
Bible: Wisdom

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them”
Plato

Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
Moliere

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
Ani Difranco

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal

A child is God’s opinion that life should go on.
Anonymous

Birth may be a matter of a moment. But it is a unique one.
Frederick Leboyer

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

When I was born I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half.
Gracie Allen

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