Birth Quotes

“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.”

“I was born with a scream.”

“When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.”

“The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment of birth.”

“The first cry of the newborn baby in Chicago or Zulu-land, in Amsterdam or Rangoon, has the same pitch and key, each saying, 'I am! I have come through! I belong! I am a member of the Family of Man!'”

“The first hour of life is the most important.”

“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them...had minded what they were about when they begot me.”

“From my mother's sleep I fell into the State.”

“The moment of birth is a moment of total vulnerability. For the mother and for the child.”

“I had been born into a world of wonder.”

“Some people are born with an inheritance of poverty, and some are born with an inheritance of affluence.”

“We do not 'come into' this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.”

“He did not feel that he had been born, but that he had been wrenched from some gentle, silent, and dreamless sleep.”

“Birth is a spiritual journey. It is the passage of a soul from one dimension to another.”

“What is learned in the womb is not forgotten.”

“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”

“When you see a child in the womb, it's a pretty strange-looking thing.”

“At my nativity the front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, of burning cressets, and at my birth the frame and huge foundation of the earth shaked like a coward.”

“To my embarrassment, I was born in bed with a lady.”