Welcome to our collection of birth quotes! The journey of bringing a new life into the world is nothing short of miraculous, filled with anticipation, joy, and profound moments of reflection. Birth symbolizes the beginning of a new chapter, a testament to the resilience and beauty of the human experience.
Throughout history, birth has been celebrated, revered, and contemplated by cultures worldwide. From the poetic to the philosophical, quotes about birth capture the essence of this extraordinary event, illuminating the myriad emotions and complexities that accompany it. Whether it’s the awe-inspiring power of creation or the tender embrace of parenthood, these quotes offer insight, inspiration, and solace to those embarking on the remarkable journey of birth.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of birth quotes that encapsulate the magic and significance of this profound moment. Feel free to use them to adorn your announcements, share them with loved ones, or simply bask in their timeless wisdom. Enjoy exploring the depth and beauty of birth through the words of poets, philosophers, and thinkers throughout history.
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. Dale Dauten
Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth. Nick Nolte
Socialisation is not optional. It’s an inescapable contract, and our birth into the world is our signature of agreement. Norms and ideologies vary from society to society, and most of them weren’t formed during our lifetimes but were handed down from one generation to the next. Michaela Coel
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents. Jane Fonda
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge. Lev Vygotsky
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. Mahavira
I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women. Eve Arnold
My name at birth was Carol Joan Klein. It would take me five decades to appreciate my surname and the history that came with it. Along the way, I would add an ‘e’ to Carol and acquire several more surnames. Carole King
I’ve had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need. Tippi Hedren
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 should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt
I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything. Billy Graham
I don’t believe in birth control. Tiny Tim
I have spent every New Year’s Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It’s a place with meaning for me. Paulo Coelho
In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Karen Salmansohn
Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. Vaclav Havel
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S. Eliot
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. William Wordsworth
My mother’s idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive – the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled. Robin Williams
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. E. M. Forster
The death of what’s dead is the birth of what’s living. Arlo Guthrie
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. Thomas Jefferson
You don’t have to give birth to someone to have a family. Sandra Bullock
Giving birth to triplets at the age of forty-three is no walk in the park, but I had little choice. I got married at the young age of forty, and both my husband, Shirish, and I were keen to start a family soon. Farah Khan
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Joseph Hall
Listen, I had two kids – one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I’m going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising. Monica Bellucci
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins
Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind. Terence McKenna
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that. Steve Jobs
Most people’s historical perspective begins with the day of their birth. Rush Limbaugh
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats
There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. Jean de la Bruyere
Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth. Rosa Parks
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death. Montesquieu
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. Gary Zukav
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. Montesquieu
For our country and people, October 10 is a meaningful revolutionary holiday when they celebrate the birth anniversary of the genuine vanguard of the revolution, its militant General Staff, which has taken responsibility for their destiny and leads them. Kim Jong-un
Giving yourself space and time can actually lead to the birth of more creativity, better creativity, and some of your best work. Jay Shetty
Don’t tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won’t respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, ‘Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.’. Joan Rivers
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance. Benazir Bhutto
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. David Friedrich Strauss
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more. Samuel Beckett
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana
Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it. Rudolf Steiner
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying… Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. Ivan Illich
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Erma Bombeck
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. Benito Mussolini
We all are Indians, and that should be our only religion. What is the need to be called a Hindu, Muslim, or Christian? Does anybody have any religion or caste at the time of birth? Nana Patekar
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. Sam Levenson
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, ‘Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?’ And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful. Malala Yousafzai
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as ‘Western Civilization,’ long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. John Henrik Clarke
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. May Sarton
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that’s the case, there should be an immediate abortion. Ginger Baker
We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive. Jeanne Shaheen
A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn’t have of given birth to another human being. Peter Kreeft
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion. Emile Durkheim
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. Charles Baudelaire
The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. Denis Waitley
After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her. Dolly Parton
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Mark Twain
We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they’re flip sides of the same coin – anything born is gonna die. Mario Van Peebles
Great dangers give birth to great resolutions. Auguste Escoffier
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. Marcus Aurelius
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. Sigmund Freud
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. Josephine Baker
The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things. Robin S. Sharma
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth. David Bowie
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. Peggy Noonan
No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you. Yann Arthus-Bertrand
I didn’t even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old, which meant that, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I just didn’t exist. Tara Westover
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine. Maya Angelou
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. Virginia Woolf
A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing. Jennie Finch
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard
There is no birth of consciousness without pain. Carl Jung
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues. W. H. Davies
If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I’m meant to give birth, I will. Jessi Klein
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. Robert Delaunay
Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay
God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth. Thales
Most people think of January 1st as the start of a new year. To people who espouse to Catholicism and Christianity, they might correlate that with the birth of Christ. Us in football, the start of spring practice and the first day of summer training camp are what you look at as the New Year with fireworks going off, it’s your birthday. Jim Harbaugh
I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made. Jackie Robinson
The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. Chiang Kai-shek
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Jean Cocteau
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. Meister Eckhart
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children. Maxim Gorky
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes. Marian Wright Edelman
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end. Ezra Taft Benson
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder. Tertullian
Labor gives birth to ideas. Jim Rohn
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. Jacques Yves Cousteau
A man is great by deeds, not by birth. Chanakya
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann
The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government. Jefferson Davis