Birth Quotes - Page 22

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

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.

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital.

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes, it's brought a tear to my eye, and a boner to my pants.

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.