Birth Quotes

Most popular birth quotes

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

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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. - Carl Sandburg quote.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

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

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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. - George Bernard Shaw quote.
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

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I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment. - Rita Mae Brown quote.
I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth. - Andrea Dworkin quote.
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.
Andrea Dworkin Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. - Sigmund Freud quote.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. - William Wordsworth quote.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

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