(120 quotes found)
“Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.”
Maxim Gorky
“What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?”
Chanakya
“I don't want to go through the pain. My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life.”
Britney Spears
“What's all this fuss about fathers being present at the birth of their children? The way events are shaping, they'll be lucky to be present at the conception.”
George H. Davies
“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.”
Bible
“After taking such a birth, O Arjuna, one regains the knowledge acquired in the previous life, and strives again to achieve perfection.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?”
Sam Keen
“. . . You were aimed from birth:you will never be alone. Rainwill come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,long aisles -- you never heard so deep a sound,moss on rock, and years. You turn your head --that's what the silence meant: you're not alone. The whole wide world pours down.”
William Stafford
“Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.”
Bart Simpson
“I was famous from birth”
Peter Fonda