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 […]
Birth Quotes
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out. (Wisdom of Solomon 7:6)
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. (John 16:21)
Birth does not lead to greatness; but the cultivation of virtues by a person leads him to greatness.
A guest on Groucho Marx’s “You Bet Your Life” television show was a woman who had given birth to twenty-two children. “I love my husband,” the woman explained sheepishly. “I love my cigar too,” Groucho said, “but I take it out once in a while.” (Reportedly Apocryphal)
I often like to say “Well I remember being born and slipping out of my mother and looking back up and saying – Well that’s the last time I’m ever going up one of those!”
To heir is human.
Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change.
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.
