Birth Quotes

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
Paul Davies

Science, Physics, Early

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Young, Old, Youth

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?
Michael Gove

Why, Child, Theatre

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
Richard Whately

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'
Luke Scott

Someone, Real, Here

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
Christopher Eccleston

Parents, Difficult, Trace

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.
Dick Van Dyke

Time, Night, Big

Shadow owes its birth to light.
John Gay

Light, Shadow, Owes

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
Omar Bongo

Between, Union, Encourage

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
Georges Cuvier

Alone, Why, Earth

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

God, Power, Children

I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
Sadie Frost

Love, Giving, Loved

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
Rickey Henderson

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz

Research, Worked, National

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz

Life, Pain, Father

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
Egon Schiele

Great, Beautiful, Joy

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
Georg Brandes

Child, House, Quite

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
Zoe Kazan

Give, Creative, Child

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
Otto Rank

Give, Thou, Shalt

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
David Cassidy

Life, Dad, Father

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

Spirit, Religious, Meaning

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.
Glen Hansard

Life, Give, Sometimes

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.
Adam Schiff

America, Dream, Nation

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
Phyllis Schlafly

Claim, Territory, Absolute

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
Phyllis Schlafly

Parents, Whether, Physical

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.
Colin Hanks

Cool, Might, Name

The birth of any show is always a rough one.
Genevieve Gorder

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
Carolyn Murphy

Amazing, Giving, Done

It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
Carolyn Murphy

Around, Easy, Child

I was famous from birth.
Peter Fonda

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