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.

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

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...

Nothing is born into this world without labor.

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take...

At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

Just like a human foetus, while in the uterus, retrieves and assimilates the components that allow its physical body to become whole and fit to emerge into the outer reality, the third dimension serves the...

We are assumed to be rather hopeless — swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

I’m always sad to leave Jax. So many magical moments here. Like the time I saw a rainbow give birth to a pot of gold, guarded by a dwarf in green.

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my body from a source I...

We’re all born an empty page.

With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here’s a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly;...

I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)… ‘I spoke to three scholars,’ [the character says...

God schedules a birthday, not man.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

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...

There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away.” Pg. 155 Undone

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.

If death is the end of life, what is birth the end of?

I’m always 15 minutes early for everything. In fact, I was born 15 minutes early. That’s why my love is always a bit premature. But don’t worry; just give our relationship a minute—plus fourteen more.

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the...

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.

Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.

Today, what’s normal is being redefined: from vaginal birth to surgical birth; from ‘My water broke,’ to ‘Let’s break your water;’ from ‘It’s time’ to ‘It’s time for the induction.’ As medical anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd...

Birth and wealth together have prevailed over virtue and talent in all ages

A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.

Subject to the law(s) of nature, hate is born to die

Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep...

A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.

He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.

Before your mother’s conception of you, God knew you; before His ‪consecration of you, He had up set your assignments right! You are not an accident!‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.

Hemingway is overrated,Twain is even more lost at sea,And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,Where both her whispers and her screams,Are born.Pour another glass, Beer, wine, whiskey,I don’t care,So long as its...

I once heard that contractions are like this: a belt around your middle that is tightened agonizingly in ever elongating instances that arrange themselves in a pattern of pain.

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

permission” to be creative and to be a creator too.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

Look around. The hantavirus is waiting for you. Ebola and the tropical rainforest is cooking up all kinds of brews to make sure that the population is kept in control. All these things are necessary....

The risk associated with preterm birth is most probably not explained by familial factors,

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.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

No, no something is…”and then they all knew.

I think [the new courthouse] will give birth to many more of these sidewalk cafes and homegrown businesses that make up the fabric of a downtown,

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

I always look like I’m lying. I was born with a politician’s face. You’ll know I’m in love when I have a Vote For Me look in my eyes.