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My parents always laughed that the wagons stopped just long enough to let my grandmother give birth. Pearsall was the nearest town to where he was born so his birth certificate is from there. (Quote by - Juanita Cansino)

The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man. (Quote by - Chief Seattle)

O my mind, obtaining the blessing of this human birth, some are engaged in the trade of Truth. (Quote by - Guru Nanak)

Child birth is one of the most natural and ancient things to occur, and the fact that 95 percent (of babies)

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. (Quote by - Natalie Clifford Barney)

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. (Quote by - Ludwig van Beethoven)

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)

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. (Quote by - George H. Davies)

It is almost like giving birth to a newborn baby. I've seen this all before, but only in my mind. And now it's real. (Quote by - Tony Teixeira)

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love. (Quote by - Billy Crystal)

We are on the right track. But the challenge is to put effective birth control measures in the northern states. (Quote by - Bikram Sen)

To keep the current low birth rate stable, the countryside is the focus that requires hard efforts. (Quote by - Zhang Weiqing)

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I know it's a record for Genesis. Think about it -- all these nurses working in the birthing unit and they're all pregnant. It's really amazing. (Quote by - Craig Cooper)

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. (Quote by - Dean Koontz)

Since giving birth to their daughter: I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. (Quote by - Tea Leoni)

Date of birth is very important to us. In a sport that's as physically taxing as ours, the correct date of birth is critical, not only in determining the physical maturity and growth potential of an athlete but also his longevity. We project body shaping and size, especially weight, and growth potential when we evaluate a player and project them. We make sure we know the correct date of birth and we do a lot of research to verify it. (Quote by - Ernie Accorsi)

One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown Jr.)

The hopes of the parent of a child with a birth defect, the hopes of a young man with a family history of cancer, the hopes of a couple caring for an aging parent are in some way advanced by our having this instruction book of an animal which is a model for all of those circumstances. (Quote by - Francis Collins)

I think these folks have been very real. When you have a birth of a baby, when you have to travel with your work, when you have stress because there's changes of jobs at your household and when you have struggled because your family doesn't want to eat what you want, that is reality. (Quote by - Patti Milligan)

Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find (him)

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. (Quote by - Francis Bacon Sr.)

Most of the cloned animals through all kinds of species are abnormal. A lot of them die prematurely, or have all kinds of defects. Many cloned mice die immediately after birth because of breathing failure. (Quote by - Tobias Brambrink)

We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong. (Quote by - Contributed by: Andy James)

ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. (Quote by - May Sarton)

The magazine is for parents, and more specifically moms, of children from birth to age 6. (Quote by - Alexandra Kennedy)

Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids. (Quote by - Roseanne)

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between. (Quote by - Ani Difranco)

We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world. (Quote by - Sameerah Shareef)

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. (Quote by - Stevie Wonder)

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. (Quote by - Eda J. Le Shan)

There is a moment of birth, of living and of death in any hope. (Quote by - Mariana Fulger)

Lindsay thought she might feel vulnerable in the hospital, partly because there is this hospital conceptualization of births as a medical emergency. You are on a time table and they want you in and out as quick as possible. (Quote by - Aaron Wolf)

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)

Connie Miller said she lost her husband and her son - who was raised a Christian - on June 14, 2004. She cried for days. But you are not the son I gave birth to, bathed and raised. .. I do not have a son anymore, .. This will be the last you will see me. That love has been destroyed and will never be there again. (Quote by - Connie Miller)

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. (Quote by - Nancy Friday)

Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher. (Quote by - Claude Martin)

What we found, to our pleasant surprise, was that extremely low-birth-weight babies -- although one-quarter have disabilities -- at young adulthood seem to have adapted fairly well. (Quote by - Dr. Saroj Saigal)

It's really a sincere tribute to giving birth. That's really what it is. (Quote by - Daniel Edwards)

His birth parents literally gave him away at birth to another couple who, during his first year of life, physically and sexually abused him. (Quote by - Thom Shuman)

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

the coldest night gives birth to the sweetest dawn forlorn stautues make love under the watch of seeds fermenting the soil demented minds no longer blinded as they found their niche the poorest man can indeed be rich. (Quote by - william j. berrioz)

You know, when you welcome a child into the world, you witness the birth of your child, and you've been there for that nine month period, you realize that there's no doubt, there's no question that women are the stronger of the sexes. There's no doubt. Any man who had to carry a child for nine months would cave in about month or two. And then delivery, you know labor? Yeah, it's over with. So yeah, I would certainly like to explore that. Sure. (Quote by - Johnny Depp)

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why dont you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, thats the first rule I will institute. (Quote by - Marilyn Manson)

Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies. (Quote by - Ehud Olmert)

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin. (Quote by - Bishop Desmond Tutu)

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Being a mother is so much more than giving birth. It takes all your time, energy, wit and strength, not to mention the wisdom and grace of God to see that that child succeeds, .. The celebrity mom is the exception to the rule as her level of strength, compassion and understanding is parallel to none. This is why we honor these mothers because they have triumphed in the spotlight and at home. (Quote by - Johnnie Walker)

If you bring the baby to us within 72 hours of birth and if there is no harm deliberately inflicted after the birth, then we take the baby, we ask no questions, and we're grateful that the baby's life has been saved. (Quote by - George Ward)

We had this crazy driver once. He brought his wife with him, she was pregnant to the extreme, like she was about to give birth, and they would stop all the time to step outside the bus to smoke cigarettes. Oh, and they kept getting lost. (Quote by - Danny Perez)

IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - 'love' unselfishly for love's sake. (Quote by - Swami Vivekananda)

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment. (Quote by - Aristotle)

When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate. (Quote by - Jackie Vernon)

Your name, address, date of birth, phone number, everything can be posted on there. It would not be hard at all for someone to commit identity theft from the information you can find on people's profiles. (Quote by - Elizabeth McCarthy)

I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days. (Quote by - Darryl Dawkins)

The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)

Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time. (Quote by - Ann Richards)

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy. (Quote by - Contributed by: Andy James)

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again. (Quote by - Buddha)

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. (Quote by - Ellis Peters)

Entering the wombs of demons birth after birth, the deluded ones sink to the lowest hell without ever attaining Me. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth. (Quote by - Contributed by: Randi)

Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star. (Quote by - Contributed by: Andy James)

The people who have been cheering for Palin are not necessarily idiots; they're herd animals who have a birth defect of two long and two short legs. If you start asking them questions about the status quo or foreign policy they will say what they have been programmed to say, 'It's all Clinton's fault.'. (Quote by - Bobby W. Miller)

Custom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth (Quote by - Aaron Hill)

England is the strongest team in the group. It's [England] the birth place of soccer and this will be the first time we have faced them in an official match. (Quote by - Dror Kashtan)

Not every birth defect is associated with something we can do to prevent it. But those we can prevent, we should. (Quote by - Dr. Hema DaSilva)

Today, while much has improved for children, there are children who remain discriminated against because of the situation of their birth. (Quote by - Janet Mintzer)

A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth (Quote by - Thomas Hood)

There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

He doesn't speak, the newborn? Why his entire being shouts out, "Don't touch me! Don't touch me!" And yet at the same time, imploringly, begging, "Don't leave me! Don't leave me!" This is birth. This is the torture, the Calvary. (Quote by - Dr. Frederick Leboyer)

Birth is the beginning of death. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

My daughter, if she chooses to have a home birth or a midwife at her birth I want that to be an option for her. (Quote by - Stacy Davis)

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age / The child is grown, and puts away childish things. / Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. / Nobody that matters, that is. (Quote by - Edna St. Vincent Millay)

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. (Quote by - Contributed by: Andy James)

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty. (Quote by - Contributed by: Andy James)

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

It was a very empowering experience for me to give birth that way. It was the most painful thing I've ever experienced, but I lived through it. Now I want to shake every pregnant woman I know and say 'have a home birth!. (Quote by - Susanne Scott Rosenfeld)

Mileage is great birth control I've learned in the past. (Quote by - Brandy Lynn Hillman)

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth. (Quote by - Chanakya)

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory. (Quote by - Henry Grunwald)

As people are waiting to celebrate the birth of Christ every year, many people connect with what we do. (Quote by - Linda Cullen)

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. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)

Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous. (Quote by - William Petty)

What's changed over the last few years is the risk of the treatment has gone down, down, down and down, so that now we're comfortable fixing almost every heart defect pretty much right after birth. (Quote by - Dr. Eliot Rosenkranz)

Our report identifies for the first time the severe and previously hidden global toll of birth defects. This is a serious, vastly unappreciated and under-funded public health problem. (Quote by - Dr. Jennifer L. Howse)

Blessed is the mother who gave birth; blessed and respected is the father of one who serves the True Guru and finds peace. His arrogant pride is banished from within. Standing at the Lord's Door, the humble Saints serve Him; they find the Treasure of Excellence. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

I've spent $10,000 out of my pocket on DNA tests, clothes, books and school for his kids. One of them is going to take the DNA test in the next couple of weeks, and one took it and passed with flying colors. The other two don't need to take it because Dirty signed the birth certificate. I promised Dirt I would be there for the kids. (Quote by - Jarred Weisfeld)

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

It was a funny situation, .. My son was born and as the nurse yelled out the time of birth -- 7:05 p.m. -- everybody started chuckling, which I couldn't understand. Then someone said it was happening around the same time the puck was being dropped in our game [against Montreal] at the Air Canada Centre. I guess I'll have to get the little guy a stick. (Quote by - Darcy Tucker)

They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom? (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

These birth mothers tried to make a plan for them that they might have a better life. If they hadn't made this decision, we wouldn't have the three greatest gifts of our life. (Quote by - Elaine Williams)

On the birth of her 2nd son Owen. 'I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!. (Quote by - Ricki Lake)

I don't think it's very realistic to not talk. When you're really at a birth, and you can see a woman is needing some help, words tend to be a way to help. (Quote by - Mallory Mensah)

The woman was killed while she was heavily pregnant. She was expecting to give birth to a child soon. (Quote by - Moatshe Ngoepe)

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before. (Quote by - Mitchell Burgess)

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?. (Quote by - Sam Keen)

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all. (Quote by - Frederick Buechner)

Sometimes it was something like the birth of a new child in the home. Sometimes it was illness of a child. (Quote by - Philip Smith)

This report demonstrates the importance of state birth defects surveillance programs and also the need for more research to identify the causes of many birth defects. (Quote by - Dr. Jennifer L. Howse)

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea. (Quote by - James Bryant Conant)

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it. (Quote by - Doug Horton)

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Our report identifies for the first time the severe, and previously hidden global toll of birth defects. This is a serious, vastly unappreciated and under-funded public health problem. (Quote by - Dr. Jennifer L. Howse)

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory. (Quote by - Dutch Proverb)

It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have a Caesarean section. (Quote by - Bill Allen)

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul. (Quote by - George Harrison)

All mothers are tired right after having a baby - it helps them get the rest that they needs to recover and heal from the physical and mental stressors of childbirth. But for most women, fatigue steadily fades within the first two weeks of giving birth. (Quote by - Elizabeth Corwin)

Death is feared as birth is forgotten. (Quote by - Doug Horton)

We've put birth in the same category with illness and disease and it's never belonged there. Birth is naturally safe, but we've allowed it to be taken over by the medical community. (Quote by - Contributed by: Andy James)

I was so happy. I felt, I can do it. I did this by myself. (Quote by - Tana Ramsay)

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. (Quote by - Eugene Field)

It's very crucial that the mother and baby spend the weekend bonding. This is our first big birth and we want to do it right. (Quote by - Andrea Hill)

As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son. (Quote by - Chanakya)

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. (Quote by - James Augustine)

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. (Quote by - Laurence Housman)

The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before pregnancy. (Quote by - Duane Alexander)

Living a life that in fact lives them, as well as death dies them every moment since the triumphal birth in order to die. (Quote by - Contributed by: Serenimus)

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it. (Quote by - J K Rowling)

It was on his last trip to Dubuque that Kerry declared that 'life begins at conception' despite having voted at least six times against banning partial-birth abortion. Kerry had previously said there is 'no such thing as a partial birth,' but told a Dubuque churchgoer that he opposes partial-birth abortion. (Quote by - Steve Schmidt)

All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Income, who they work for, their social security number, their date of birth, their children's date of birth, their names, where they live, who they work for. (Quote by - Jim Doyle)

Yesterday at The Oval had to be the most thrilling moment of my life... perhaps after the birth of my children. (Quote by - Gladstone Small)

The power of God can be seen with the birth of a child. (Quote by - George Otero)

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but..life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. (Quote by - Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. (Quote by - Conrad Veidt)

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. (Quote by - Contributed by: robert)

It's something, after all, that he'll only experience 2,3 maybe 4 times in his life. (Quote by - Stephen Brierly)

Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)

I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time w. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

It's seven years today, my anniversary, and it was my birthday yesterday - it's been a great weekend for me. I better be careful with the missus otherwise I will probably put her in the club! (Quote by - Neil Warnock)

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength. (Quote by - Contributed by: Andy James)

On the day of your birth, your parents had no idea that one day you would be my special gift for eternity. (Quote by - Francesco N. Cece)

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. (Quote by - Richard Whately)

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills. (Quote by - Anthony Brandt)

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)

Today is my birthday and the crew surprised me with a cake. But this was not the best present I got from the team. That was the new car, which felt good on the track. I did a few runs in the afternoon and everything went well. (Quote by - Giancarlo Fisichella)

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth. (Quote by - Leonard Orr)

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)

Death borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave (Quote by - Joseph Hall)

Let your Father and your Mother be glad, and let her rejoice who gave birth to you. (Quote by - Proverb)

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything. (Quote by - William MacNeile Dixon)

Many birth defects form during the embryonic period, before a woman even realizes she's missed her first period. (Quote by - Amy Case)

This country gave birth to the Olympics, but unfortunately also gave birth to a nightmare. (Quote by - Michalis Dimitrakopoulos)

We think that birth parents should always have the option to choose whether their information should be released. At the beginning of the process, when a child is being put up for adoption, you ask the birth parents whether they want their information to be sealed or unsealed. (Quote by - Roger Vann)

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. (Quote by - Dale Dauten)

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. (Quote by - Aristotle)

You were aimed from birth:(Quote by - will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,)

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth. (Quote by - Chanakya)

Birth partners can have potentially beneficial effects on maternal birth experiences. (Quote by - Dr Ed Keogh)

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. (Quote by - Bible)

Maybe it's my birthday, I honestly don't know. I'm 58? There's not much I need - I have plenty of socks (Quote by - Arsene Wenger)

Women in their 20s and early 30s had relatively high rates of success for pregnancies, live births, and single live births. But success rates declined steadily once a woman reach her mid-30s. (Quote by - Victoria Wright)

The birth of a child is a very special time in the life of a parent. We wanted to give parents an occasion to return to the hospital, show off their child and interact with our staff. Additionally, we thought it would be an excellent opportunity to throw in a little bit of education. (Quote by - Sharon Wilson)

All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)

After taking such a birth, O Arjuna, one regains the knowledge acquired in the previous life, and strives again to achieve perfection. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)

Immediately on the birth of his first born a man is ,called the father of a son and is freed from the debt to the manes, that ,son , therefore, is worthy ,to receive the whole estate. (Quote by - Guru Nanak)

But you are not the son I gave birth to, bathed and raised. .. I do not have a son anymore. This will be the last you will see me. That love has been destroyed and will never be there again. (Quote by - Connie Miller)

God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

I cannot say enough about the importance of the research and support of the March of Dimes. Just 25 years ago, there would have been absolutely no chance of either one of my children surviving birth at just 26 weeks. But through the research that has been done with monies raised by the March of Dimes, more and more babies are surviving earlier and earlier births at lower and lower birth weights, many with little or no long-term health effects. (Quote by - Valerie Lawler)

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. (Quote by - Ellen Glasgow)

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. (Quote by - Buddha)

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying. . . . Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. (Quote by - Ivan Illich)

When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me… then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride. (Quote by - Jacob Boehme)

It's a turning point in history, the birth of a nation, and the death almost of a culture. (Quote by - Colin Farrell)

Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down. (Quote by - Michel Odent)

We're going to send her .. a couple of bottles of Seaside Festival wine so she can celebrate the birth of her child. (Quote by - Tim O'Sullivan)

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. (Quote by - Liv Tyler)

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. (Quote by - George Burns)

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

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. (Quote by - Britney Spears)

I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)

At-home birth has been proven to be as safe or safer for low-risk pregnancy women. From what I have seen, birth has its best chance of being normal when it is in a home environment. You have to deliver where you feel safe. (Quote by - Susanne Scott Rosenfeld)

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)

It's just kind of becoming a fun game of learning. We've also been studying what happens after the birth and how to take care of the baby. (Quote by - Tom Cruise)

He would sing 'Happy Birthday,' and he would sing in the loudest, most obnoxious, off-key tone. For him, every day was a birth day. (Quote by - Dusty Rhodes)

The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life. (Quote by - William Of Normandy)

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful. (Quote by - R. D. Laing)

They made very sure that you saw this birth defect up close. We knew she had a cleft lip and palate. But we wanted to see pictures of all of her, not just the lip. (Quote by - Elaine Williams)

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. (Quote by - Buddha)

Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement. (Quote by - Tina Fey)

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)

I think to ignore that piece of work is foolish on any number of levels, .. I think it's a tragic mistake for anybody who really wants to think seriously about those issues - about the issues of race relations in the United States - and how we as a society deal with any kind of contentious issue. ..If you're concerned about race relations issues in the United States today to ignore 'Birth of a Nation' is to put aside a tool that can tell you a lot. (Quote by - Clarence Wyatt)

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. (Quote by - Stendhal)

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. (Quote by - Bible)

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. (Quote by - Lucy Ellman)

Understanding the birth, evolution and death of stars is an important piece of information. It's all part of our cosmic understanding of the universe and our place in it. (Quote by - Edward Kolb)

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. (Quote by - Robert Bolt)

You don't realize this when you're giving birth but you instantly know it when you assess your life. (Quote by - Reese Witherspoon)

At 10 years old, it was her re-birth date gift and it's the best gift she's ever received. (Quote by - Tim Kuniholm's)

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth. (Quote by - Maria Montessori)

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. (Quote by - Jackie Kennedy)

This ocean too is vast and full of mystery; it has its unplumbed depths! It tosses man about from birth to death and again from death to birth. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash. (Quote by - Sophie Tucker)

Naturally, man has to seek all means of discovering the meaning of Life, for without knowing it, he is lost; he wanders from birth to birth, receiving knock after knock and is seldom the better for all the experience. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. (Quote by - Anna Julia Cooper)

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea. (Quote by - Marianne Williamson)

I like to call these things birthing pains. Unfortunately, this senior class had to go through a lot of those. We've lost a lot of close games, but these are the birthing pains of the program. I'm excited about the future of Wesleyan football. (Quote by - Phillip Deas)

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)

Most of these women are returning to work anywhere from six to 12 weeks after giving birth. There isn't a lot of research out there on women's general postpartum health, and almost nothing specifically looking at working women. (Quote by - Pat McGovern)

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. (Quote by - Buddha)

This existence of ours is as transient as Autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain. (Quote by - Buddha)

If a woman and her health care provider decide that a certain medication like birth control is right for her, it is not appropriate for a pharmacist to second-guess that judgment for personal reasons, .. That is exactly what this regulation allows for. (Quote by - Daniel Kessler)

Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent. (Quote by - Michael Young)

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

After your death you will be what you were before your birth. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

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. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)

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. (Quote by - Lillian Smith)

The thing that is most hypocritical is choosing the 75th anniversary of his birth -- the man who was the epitome of peace, perhaps the most noted African-American anti-war individual. (Quote by - Tim McDonald)

I was determined to experience the birth, and I am so scared at the thought of having my abdomen cut open. So I was lucky that the birth went very smoothly. (Quote by - Heidi Klum)

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!. (Quote by - Tippi Hedren)

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. (Quote by - Contributed by: Dafna Sharon)

Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children. (Quote by - Maxim Gorky)

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. (Quote by - Voltaire)

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them. (Quote by - Plato)

The same can be said of partial birth abortion, which is a horribly violent procedure which kills a baby moments before birth. This decision is contemptuous to Congress, which overwhelmingly passed the ban. (Quote by - Todd Akin)

So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him - thi. (Quote by - Thomas Wolfe)

To witness the birth of a child is our best opportunity to experience the meaning of the word miracle. (Quote by - Paul Carvel)

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?. (Quote by - Chanakya)

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs (Quote by - Hank Azaria)

One item producers like to have built into a numbering (ID) system is the year of birth. Some might find the international letters coding system helpful. (Quote by - Eldon Cole)

People tend to believe that everyone that gives birth is ready for parenting and they're not. He just had parents that weren't ready to parent and still aren't. (Quote by - Kathleen Spillers)

It's too costly for me to give birth in other hospitals, which would charge at least some 3,000 yuan. (Quote by - Xing Xiaoying)

It's unusual, but our high school group is going to Philadelphia for its spring trip, which is why we picked that piece, and it's also the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth. (Quote by - Bill Robinson)

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. (Quote by - Buddha)

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them (Quote by - Margaret Mitchell)

He will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted. (Quote by - Graham Earl)

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. (Quote by - Daniel P. Moynihan)

In my opinion as a layperson, I think births should be planned, wanted and at a good time for the parents. If minors are having births that they wouldn't have had if the law had not been imposed, then we are increasing the rate of unwanted children. (Quote by - Ted Joyce)

If you can announce the seasons or the birth of a child, you can certainly announce the reasons for the birth of a nation. (Quote by - Luke Lirot)

When we first met, we shared a dream. We decided that one day we would like to do a comprehensive study of the most powerful ceremonies that occurred across the African continent, spanning the life cycle from birth to death. We were aware these ceremonies were fast disappearing and we felt an urgency to record them before it was too late. And we've been working toward that for the last ten years in order to prepare our double-volume book. (Quote by - Carol Beckwith)

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Of course you can talk to the baby after the birth and cuddle them and hold them close. (Quote by - Pat Felske)

My Love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high: It was begotten by despair Upon Impossibility. (Quote by - Andrew Marvell)

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash (Quote by - Sophie Tucker)

The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated Decembe. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. (Quote by - Buddha)

Your body has a beginning and an end; your body is subject to birth and death; but you, the spark of life within the body, are eternal. (Quote by - Science of Identity)

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)

Lift up your eyes upon. This day breaking for you. Give birth again. To the dream. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)

We are ecstatic to announce the birth of our son! Everyone is happy, healthy and doing wonderful. Thank you for all your love and well wishes!!. (Quote by - Britney Spears)

I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)

35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)

Premature birth affects us all. I am proud to be asking people to join me in walking for someone they love, because when we walk for one baby, we are walking to save all babies. (Quote by - John Boyd)

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. (Quote by - Jacques Cousteau)

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. (Quote by - Bart Simpson)

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth. (Quote by - Avery Brundage)

If this minor did not want to have this birth, is that a good outcome? What are the consequences to the offspring of the women who have the unintended birth?. (Quote by - Ted Joyce)

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. (Quote by - Carol Burnett)

I think you can start at birth by exposing kids to books and music that deal with money and money-related topics. Around age 3 or 4 you can expand their education with activities like counting, coloring, cash registers and playing store. (Quote by - Sam Renick)

Until recently, it was not understood how diabetic pregnancy could cause birth defects. My laboratory wanted to explore this research because the more we know about the effects of the mother's diabetes on the embryo, the more tools we have to identify therapies that may prevent birth defects in diabetic pregnancy. (Quote by - Mary R. Loeken)

The most important day of your life is your birthday, because your birth certificate gives you the right to be a champion. (Quote by - John Di Lemme)

Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go. (Quote by - L. Ron Hubbard)

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities (Quote by - Cesare Lombroso)

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. (Quote by - Edward Young)

Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

It [giving birth] was easier than having a tattoo. (Quote by - Nicole Appleton)

There is so much more to life than football, and we just wanted to highlight that, .. Whether it's the death of a sibling or the birth of a baby, it's such a opportunity to see God's hand in it, the bigger picture in life. (Quote by - Jay Feely)

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it. (Quote by - Mao Tse-Tung)

A man is great by deeds, not by birth. (Quote by - Chanakya)

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. (Quote by - Alistair Cooke)

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless..And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come. (Quote by - )

To Him is referred the knowledge of the hour, and there come not forth any of the fruits from their coverings, nor does a female bear, nor does she give birth, but with His knowledge; and on the day when He shall call out to them, Where are (those whom you called) My associates? They shall say: We declare to Thee, none of us is a witness. (Quote by - quran)