(135 quotes found)
“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.”
Lillian Smith
“Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.”
T.S. Eliot
“The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before pregnancy.”
Duane Alexander
“Let your Father and your Mother be glad, and let her rejoice who gave birth to you.”
Proverb
“Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.”
Marianne Williamson
“You don't realize this when you're giving birth but you instantly know it when you assess your life,”
Reese Witherspoon
“If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.”
Princess Diana
“[Watching a baby being born] is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.”
Jeff Foxworthy
“The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch.”
Dave Barry
“Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?”
Steven Wright
