#birth

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. ↗

— Mary Antin

#growth #longer #mothers #our #ourselves

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#birth #came #child #house #more

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

#birth #born #conscious #death #dies

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#approaching #fortieth #i #life #made

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#formed #individuals #intimates #our #parents

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#difficult #parents #trace #very #your

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#affect #anxiety #birth #experience #first

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#birthday #birthday party #children #excuses #got

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. ↗

— Edward Young

#birth #death #fire #moment #nothing

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#child #every #found #giving #globe