Birth Quotes

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

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

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.