Quotes about Birth
All theology is a kind of birthday Each one who is born Comes into the world as a question For which old answers Are not sufficient…
- Thomas Merton
It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
- CS Lewis
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
- George Bernard Shaw
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
- George Eliot
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. - Clara the clairvoyant
- Isabel Allende
Leanne lighted an oil lamp and they continued until the moment came to receive the baby. 'Erzulie, mother loa, help it be born,' Tete prayed aloud. 'Saint Raymond Nonatus, pay attention, do not let an African saint get ahead of you,' Leanne answered in the same tone, and they both burst out laughing.
- Isabel Allende
I was born in 1920, during the influenza pandemic, and I'm going to die in 2020, during the outbreak of coronavirus. What an elegant name for such a terrible scourge.
- Isabel Allende
Born on Monday, fair in the face; Born on Tuesday, full of God's grace; Born on Wednesday, sour and sad; Born on Thursday, merry and glad; Born on Friday, worthily given;
- Anonymous
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.
- Mark Twain
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
- Marianne Williamson