Why Is Birth Important? Because birth can be one of the most amazing, fulfilling and exciting life experiences we can have. And because we don’t just leave our feelings about our birth at the hospital. Powerful collection of inspirational birth quotes will empower you and give you positive mindset to mentally prepare for first baby’s birth.
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Best Birth Quotes
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and in spite of True Romance magazines we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely at least, not all the time but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness. Hunter S. Thompson
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. G. Stanley Hall
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Gabriel García Márquez
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. Josephine Baker
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. Carol Burnett
After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. E.B. White
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
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. Fernando Pessoa
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story. Diane Setterfield
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Jean Cocteau
Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs. Jim Morrison
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana
They should tell you when you’re born have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. Gabrielle Zevin
I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made. Jackie Robinson
It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible. Anne Lamott
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge. Lev Vygotsky
My first words, as I was being born I looked up at my mother and said, that’s the last time I’m going up one of those. Stephen Fry
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. Ludwig van Beethoven
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. William Blake
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I’ve been embarrassing myself since about birth. Phil Lester
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education. Jean Jacques Rousseau
The main facts in human life are five birth, food, sleep, love and death. E. M. Forster
I want to be a good leader, not a good lady leader. I don’t want to be known simply as the woman who gave birth. Jacinda Ardern
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Erma Bombeck
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being? And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful. Malala Yousafzai
Remember this, for it is as true and true gets Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. Ina May Gaskin
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It’s how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment all of that is expressed in culture. Wendell Pierce
A birth date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life. Amit Kalantri
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. May Sarton
Men were created before women. But that doesn’t prove their superiority rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what’s so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi. Moderata Fonte
God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth. Thales
At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel. Benjamin J. Carey
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. Steven Biko
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day. Vera Nazarian
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein
Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I thought, I listened, I longed not to exist. But life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis. Shan Sa
Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay
I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. Diane Setterfield
There is no birth of consciousness without pain. Carl Jung
I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born in order to become the world’s strongest shinobi an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me. Masashi Kishimoto
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Birth and death there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance. J.K. Rowling
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. Erich Fromm
It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers, saying with our entire curved and silenced selves, more, more, more. I want to insist that are being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it? Ocean Vuong
A man is great by deeds, not by birth. Chanakya
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born. Erich Fromm
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as Western Civilization, long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. John Henrik Clarke
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. Joseph Campbell
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more. Samuel Beckett
The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it’s shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remeber. Eve Ensler
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. Peggy Noonan
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began. Francine Rivers
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. Sigmund Freud
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other except through faith. Stephen King
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
A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime. John Stevenson
Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children. Maxim Gorky
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn’t seem fair that we only remember dying. Lauren DeStefano
New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. Sarah Ban Breathnach
Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength. Barbara Katz Rothman
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln
We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries. Wendy Corsi Staub
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Erma Bombeck
Birth and death what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it’s freakish, let’s face it. Rohinton Mistry
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. Marcus Aurelius
Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. Dale Dauten
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. Thich Nhat Hanh
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. Dale Dauten
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. Tom Robbins
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. Robert Neelly Bellah
If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that’s as dear to life as breathing. Ami McKay
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. Montesquieu
Nothing is born into this world without labor. Rob Liano
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine. Maya Angelou
He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for. Obert Skye
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. Christopher Fry
There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away. Brooke Taylor
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. Edward Young
There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we humans are. Once, when I was nineteen, on the subway in Boston I lost my balance slightly and bumped into an elderly woman. I quickly apologized and she replied, Well, hold on to something, stupid. There it is. That’s it. That’s it in a nutshell. I don’t want to sound negative, but I think every fetus should be shown a film of that incident, maybe projected up on the uterine wall, and then asked if it wants to come out. I am a strong believer in a woman’s right to choose, but I also think that in the last trimester, the kid should be given every opportunity to back out. Paula Poundstone
The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream. Joel Osteen
How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life. William Sears
Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer
When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die. Gautama Buddha
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. Robert Delaunay
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers. May Sarton
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal. Hermann Hesse
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. Thomas Jefferson
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born as I have been informed and believe on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. Charles Dickens
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. Thomas Jefferson
You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved. Suzy Kassem
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard
It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet. Ina May Gaskin
The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. Denis Waitley
In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words or perhaps someone else’s before slipping back into darkness as our series of unfortunate events comes to an end. Lemony Snicket
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Mark Twain
The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying. T.S. Eliot
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S. Eliot
Imagine that the world had created a new dream product to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it. Frank Oski
From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. Sophie Tucker
The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God. Hans Urs von Balthasar
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity. But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. Meister Eckhart
God schedules a birthday, not man. Robert A. Bradley
The Course in Miracles says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation. Marianne Williamson
Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise. Peggy Vincent
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal
The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push! T.F. Hodge
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion. Emile Durkheim
The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc. Michael Bassey Johnson
What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God realized being named Lao tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence. Wayne Dyer
Being born really isn’t that uncommon. Almost everything in this world is meant to die. In this world, a life born is nothing more than an insignificant speck, and shouldn’t even be counted as an existence. Death is natural. Johan Liebert
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
Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make. Helen Varney
One year they asked me to be poster boy for birth control. Rodney Dangerfield
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs. Grantly Dick Read
I don’t believe in birth control. Tiny Tim