birth quotes

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.