Birth Quotes

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. (Marcus Aurelius)
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. View quote
George Santayana
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. View quote
Erich Fromm
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
There is no birth of consciousness without pain. View quote
Carl Jung
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. View quote
Baron d'Holbach
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The death of dogma is the birth of reality. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. (Sam Levenson)
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. View quote
Robert N. Bellah
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. View quote
Thornton Wilder
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. View quote
Montesquieu
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. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
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. View quote
Georges Cuvier
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. View quote
Steve Biko
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. (Joan Rivers)
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère