We change at least one person’s life just by being born.
—Samantha Sotto in Before Ever After
People who let their dogs and cats have litters in order to show their children the “miracle of birth” should come witness the “miracle of death” performed in the back rooms of animal shelters all over the country.
—Phyllis Wright
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
—Ronald Reagan
In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall.
—Vladimir Nabokov
All birth is unwilling.
—Pearl S. Buck
I'll bet you one thing, if the man had to have the first baby there wouldn't be but two in the family. Yes sir, let him have the first one and the woman have the next one, and his time wouldn't come around no more.
—Josephine Riley Matthews
Women have the power of life and death. We, after all, give birth and the fate of humanity is in our hands. That is why men try so hard to rule us, my dear. They know if we once looked well on what they have made of the human existence, we might close our legs and within our barren wombs bring the comedy to an end.
—Alice Borchardt
Ever since I was a little kid, I've had trouble with transitions. I don't mean the usual life transitions of birth, death, divorce, moving — everyone has trouble with those. No, I mean the little transitions, like the one between waking up and putting my feet on the floor. Or between turning off the car and going into the house. Or between getting out of the shower and getting dressed. You can see why life has been very, very hard for me.
—Alison Luterman
I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.
—Amy Tan
It is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people — and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.
—Kathleen Winsor
God is not a continent, like Antarctica, lying off somewhere, inert, without relation to human life till some Scott or Amundsen or Byrd finds him. God is not a mountain peak to which travelers must go and which they climb step by step. God is like the air we breathe or the earth beneath our feet. To discover God is simply to awaken to reality. It is like a plant discovering the sun and the rain that drew it from the earth or like children discovering the parents who gave them birth and love and nurture.
—Luther A. Weigle
Shadow owes its birth to light.
—John Gay
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
—Abigail Van Buren
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
—Barry Switzer
He not busy being born is busy dying.
—Bob Dylan