…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.

I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at...

Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp. … Like John Donne, man lies in a close prison, yet it is dear to him. Like Donne’s, his thoughts at times...

I watched my friend Eleanor give birth,” she said. “Once you’ve seen a child born, you realize a baby’s not much more than a reconstituted ham and cheese sandwich. Just a little anagram of you...

Moments give birth to new memories

The context needs to be that the goal is a healthy mom. Because mothers never make decisions without thinking about that healthy baby. And to suggest otherwise is insulting and degrading and disrespectful.

I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught

Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten.

The world seems to be witnessing a deluge of ‘haterisms’, and racist propaganda because evil’s pain was born to die, and it’s time of tyranny is near the end. Don’t get caught up by the...

We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.

He’s doing really well now. But we weren’t even sure in the week before his birth if our baby was going to survive.

Man begets, but land does not beget.

I’d prefer to die in Texas when I’m old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that’s where I entered the world, so that’s how I’ll leave it. 

We have known for a long time that 30 to 40 percent of women on birth control pills have decreased libido.

from the Prize winning poem – UNBORN in the book Terra Affirmative.”Under the surface / her body is curled, / seed of the one race, / shell of the world. // She is thw waterfall,...

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain, and it was dying to come out on paper. It was begging of...

Children are sacred beings.

We are all the fruits of pleasure’s toil.

Men were created before women. … But that doesn’t prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of...

My child has to be an artist,because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.

A child … should have a silent, as painless as possible, birth. The delivery itself should … be as calm and no-talk as possible.

Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was...

The day you were born the angels whispered, “She is going to love him until the day she dies.

Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one’s life.The first kiss, the birth of one’s first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the...

I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state

I think people over the age of 6’2” look great. Just look at me! I was born in less than 19.82 inches.

I was nine minutes late for my last birthday party. And I was nine months on time for my first birthday.

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or...

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

A child of God, special possession.

To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting...

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

One way to measure a particular doctor’s openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor’s opinion of midwifery.

There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we humans are. Once, when I was nineteen, on the subway in Boston I lost my balance slightly and...

I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, I’d just been born?

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it’s a controlled substance.

Maybe attraction was aligned in heaven before our birth because there was no other way to explain my feelings. There were millions of boys on the earth. Why did it feel so strong?

Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature...

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as...

The fame is birthed through the opposition. The success through the dynamism of fighting the despair. No fight, No lift!

Love can come shooting out of nowhere, much like semen shoots out a penis. Too many lives come to an end—and begin—from random shootings.