Birth Quotes

"I was born modest; not all over, but in spots."

"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 our infancy."

"What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?"

"I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all."

"Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite"

"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 comet 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."

"Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination"

"It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection"

"Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life"

"Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise."

"The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it."

"Every man is an impossibility until he is born."

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

"A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment"

"Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again"

"For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them"

"Let your Father and your Mother be glad, and let her rejoice who gave birth to you."

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

"Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors."

"When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself."