(915 quotes found)
“It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.”
Henry David Thoreau
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"”
Eve Merriam
“Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und”
Buddha
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”
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Barbara Katz Rothman
“That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.”
Gracie Allen
“Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.”
Lucy Ellman
“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds”