Top 1200 Birth Defects Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

Obama is the closest thing to a Latino that we have. Barack. Everybody wants to see his birth certificate too.

Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Can a Congress worker ever think of becoming a Prime Minister? No. Because that seat is reserved by birth in that party.

He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.

Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.

I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

I have not betrayed Barca, and I'm surprised anyone would doubt my commitment to Barcelona, because I've been a fan since birth.

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

The rat gave birth. Six little ones...cute baby rats... None of them are like Hitler.

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

My second daughter's birth stopped time. My world lost its momentum in revolving towards goals and dreams.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided.

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

My great-grandfather was the last ruler of the Choctaw Nation, and from birth, I was taught that my role was to restore the power and the glory to my bloodline.

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

Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? I bet Obama is sorry now that he spent all that money on the new birth certificate.

The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.

My date of birth is also memorable because it happens to be the same day I heard my first narration of my debut film.

To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.

This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.

It's funny. I did give birth to an alien on 'The X-Files.' And it's just the teaser, so I'm dead before we even get into the episode.

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

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

At the birth of society and civilisation I find a religious landscape littered with feisty female deities who make wisdom their business.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.

I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.

Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.