Quotes about Birth
Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.
- Thomas Paine
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
- Cormac McCarthy
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
- Cormac McCarthy
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you.
- Cormac McCarthy
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you.
- Cormac McCarthy
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
- Cormac McCarthy
Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He
- Cormac McCarthy
It is impudence to say that Woman was made out of Man's body, she continued, when every man is born of woman. What impudence men have, what arrogance!
- DH Lawrence
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots
- Walt Whitman
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
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.
- Ricky Gervais