Birth Quotes

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

Giving, Head, Taking

Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall

Death, Stands, Grave

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
Joan Rivers

Best, Control, Leave

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Sophia Loren

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
T. E. Lawrence

True, Children, Parents

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.
Franz Kafka

Life, Before, Hesitation

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Samuel Beckett

Night, Give, Light

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
Jean de la Bruyere

Life, Death, Live

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

Life, Before, Hesitation

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.
Marco Rubio

Work, Power, Government

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Life, Good, Government

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James Thurber

Long, Before, Died

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Mao Zedong

Long, May, Problem

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor.
Bill Maher

Survivor, Hi, Bill

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

Death, Walk, Toward

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Control, Rather

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith

Woman, Hard, Giving

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
Guru Nanak

Death, Born, Either

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
Bodhidharma

Death, Through, Move

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
Pat Robertson

Age, End, Before

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
Tertullian

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia

Music, Art, Future

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Movies, Mother, Pay

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Jean de la Bruyere

Character, Care, High

There are only 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

Life, Death, Pain

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?
Henry Louis Gates

Marriage, Truth, Sad

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.
Ann Coulter

Him, Last, Leave

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

Death, Blessed, Between

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Benito Mussolini

Off, Fate, Felt

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