If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself..

What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death..

Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth..

There is no birth of consciousness without pain..

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species..

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA..

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp..

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man..

I've learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between..

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation..

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier..

What appeals to me in The Deuce is some of the same things that made me interested in The Wire, which is there seems to be a theme here around market….

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth..

The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is….

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune..

The idea of life in France is a utopia where the women are beautiful and they eat cheese all day and wear designer clothes and are magically thin and….

I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth..

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

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth..

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric..