Give Birth Quotes

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
- Maxim Gorky

...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
- Plato

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.
- Paul Auster

Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again.
- P C Cast

you need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing sta
- Friedrich Nietzsche

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Dammit, Vik. How can you not know what's wrong with this thing? Can't you commune with it or something? (Devyn)
My name is not 'Dammit, Vik' and I find it ironic that you think I can commune with all metal beings when you can barely communicate your point of view to your own parents. And they birthed you. I did not give birth to this ship. Last time I checked, I was male and that would be impossible on a multitude of levels. (Vik)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
- Samuel Beckett

They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they looked on life with a resigned suspicion; they loved it as animals do, but they knew from experience that it would regularly give birth to disaster without even showing any sign that it was carrying it.
- Albert Camus

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
- Robert Neelly Bellah

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.
- Haruki Murakami

Principles and logic didn't give birth to reality. Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed.
- Haruki Murakami

When you curse anything bad,
you just give birth to the new one.
- Toba Beta

One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl
and when she's born she'll scream
and I'll tell her to never stop
I will kiss her before I lay her down at night
and will tell her a story so she knows
how it is and how it must be for her to survive
I'll tell her to set things on fire
and keep them burning
I'll teach her that fire will not consume her
that she must use it
- Nicole Blackman

In all honesty, men changed a few rules when they became what was referred to as househusbands. Bill didn't make beds, cook, dust, do laundry, windows or floors, or give birth. What he did do was pay bills, call people to fix the plumbing, handle the investments and taxes, volunteer big time, take papers to the garage, change license plates, get the cars serviced, and pick up the cleaning. If women had had that kind of schedule, who knows, we'd probably still be in the home.
- Erma Bombeck

We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.
- Anthony Bourdain

It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.
- Julie Bowen

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
- Carl Sandburg

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

- Terry Brooks

You look spectacluar, Cam.' She smoothes out his shirt and straightens his tie. 'You look like the shining star you are!'
'Let's hope I don't give birth to complex elements.'
She looks at him quizzically.
'Supernova,' he says. 'If I'm a shining star, let's hope I don't blow up.
- Neal Shusterman

And maybe men say they're glad not to give birth, all the pain and blood, but really that's just so much sour grapes. For sure, men can't do anything near as incredible. Upper body strength, abstract thought, phallusesany advantages men appear to have are pretty token.
You can't even hammer a nail with a phallus.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
- Chuck Palahniuk

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.
- Sandra Bullock

If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?"
"Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
- Orson Scott Card

We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.
- Sorin Cerin

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
- Robert Delaunay

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
- Milan Kundera

A single metaphor can give birth to love.
- Milan Kundera

Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
- Milan Kundera

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?
- Ursula K Le Guin

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
- Nancy Friday

Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
- Erich Fromm

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
- Erich Fromm

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
- Stephen Fry

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. ... Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
- Jostein Gaarder

Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.
- Margaret George

This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is for ordinary birds to give birth to a swan. The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way into the world.
- Arthur Golden

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
- Hesiod

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
- Laura Hillenbrand

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

Parents give birth to a dude. Dude grows up, becomes a vampire. Parents assign me to kill him by burying him in his dreams. Happens to me all the time.
- Cameron Jace

When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.
- Denis Johnson

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.
- Denis Johnson

When I'm introduced to a woman for the first time, I always say the same thing. I say, "Hi, I'm Jarod, and I think you'll love my kids. You'd better, because you're going to give birth to them." This usually works, because after I say this I can immediately go back to being an introvert, as I'm left standing there all alone.
- Jarod Kintz

I don't want to adopt your ideas, I want to give birth to them.
- Jarod Kintz

I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
- Padma Lakshmi

So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other;
- Lao Tzu

...the Bush administration may, in future years, be remembered 'for bringing peace to the Middle East' (as Condoleezza Rice has pronounced). History may be the mother of truth, but it can also give birth to illegitimate children.
- Alberto Manguel

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
- Katherine Mansfield

Never give birth to children thoughtlessly!'' I want to shout it out loud.That is why, stroke by faltering stroke, I've written this all down.
- Sayo Masuda

Sorry," he mumbled.
"You should be!" Zoe snapped. "You scared the hell out of me and now I'm about to give birth to two Bradfords out in the middle of nowhere with no drugs! Do you have any idea how big a Bradford head is? Huh? Do you?
- R L Mathewson

Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth
- Anne Mccaffrey

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 and what you've been eating for nine months.
- Lorrie Moore

Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.
- Bridget Moynahan

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
- Kevin Oleary

It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.
- Edith Pattou

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
- Otto Rank

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
- Rachael Ray

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
- Adrienne Rich

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.
- Stephen J Rivele

And then you two go and call attention to yourselves like this," Ian continued. "Holding hands in a pedalo, for Christ's sake. They must have been frothing at the mouth at the thought of you two reproducing, wondering if you'd give birth to some kind of metaphysically enhanced creature or a bottomless black hole.
- Jeri Smith Ready

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
- Sophocles

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!
- Gloria Trevi