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Birth

«Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.»
Author: Carol Burnett | About: Birth, Giving | Keywords: giving birth, lip
«I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.»
Author: Laura Nyro | About: Birth, Death, Fear, Peace
«Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.»
«After your death you will be what you were before your birth.»
«Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.»
Author: Satchel Paige | About: Birth
«For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the Thou shouldst not grieve.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | About: Birth, Death | Keywords: for certain, grieve
«Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.»
«Birth is nothing where virtue is not»
Author: Moliere (Actor, Playwright, Writer) | About: Birth
«For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Birth, Honor, Life, Love, Principles, Wealth | Keywords: aspire, honorable, honors
«Birth is the beginning of death»

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