As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social...

We know how we were born, but know not how we will die.

We go into the natural world and we plunder it for its resources — we feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow, and when she gives birth, we steal her baby even though her cries...

Birth of a Nation.

As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded withGod for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.

Every birth comes out of labour pains. The most difficult task is not about being pregnant with visions; it’s about delivering an impact that inspires lives.

I was born in 1982. That’s like 1984, except not so dystopian.

I’m an only child, and therefore I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me, they wouldn’t even be parents.

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

I told you before, I don’t want out of this marriage. And if you give me nothing but daughters for the next twenty years, I would consider myself blessed.

A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime.

Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival.

We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.

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...

For certain you can be helped, should you accept it. But as far as being made…no one can do that. This occurred on the day you were born. An earth day is not a birth...

One of the strangest things is the act of creation.You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instrument.You then look inside yourself. You pull...

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Beyond a year, we don’t know [what happens]. The question is, does the birth control pill imprint on the body a signal to continue making this protein that attaches to the testosterone? If so, these...

Music is the love child birthed from the boundless freedom found in dreams and the rapturous opposition faced in life; for that, we should be so grateful for both the light and the dark.

I need a tube-shaped bathtub, to play the tuba in. I make love like I make music—in a shower that’s in a phone booth that’s in 1981, the year before I was born.

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

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.

self awareness is self created birth. after that it is unstoppable.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

We hypothesized that preterm birth would be associated with high blood pressure later in life, but we did not expect the risk to be as high as it was,

…fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they’re gone, we’re left with the concept, but not the true memory–why else…would anyone give birth more than once?

Time is a function of memory; what does not pass through a smile flies away through dark. Celebrating passing time applies to the successful ones. Cheer on your birthday, you’re among the lucky ones.

Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?...

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never intruded and even their role in conception was unknown. Here the chain of...

The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it’s shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So...

My love started the day I was born. If you run you can probably catch up. Remember, think marathon—not sprint.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Two days ago, Tuesday at 10:10 am, I gave birth to a bagel. And God commanded me to slice up my only begotten bagel in two, and who am I to argue with God? So...

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child.

Some of us hover when we weep for the other who wasdying since the day they were born.

The desires for both a good experience and a healthy baby are very much connected, and there is nothing wrong with wanting both!

…the total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is rediculous to think that two-thirds of American women have such lousy...

Should you ever feel too lonely…listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who’ve been and all those who are to come.

It brings no glory to man if he is tied helplessly to the wheel of birth and death. His glory and greatness consist in disentangling himself from that revolving wheel.

We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in...

It was difficult to anticipate—in these monsters with enormous, fantastic beaks which they opened wide immediately after birth, hissing greedily to show the backs of their throats, in these lizards with frail, naked bodies of...

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

I’ve had the paperwork sitting on my desk for the past nine months, waiting to be filled out and sent in. I feel like I’ve given birth to procrastination.

It rewrites the contract, I’d read somewhere. Your self’s no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.