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.
I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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.
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.
At the birth of society and civilisation I find a religious landscape littered with feisty female deities who make wisdom their business.
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
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.
Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.
I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
My date of birth is also memorable because it happens to be the same day I heard my first narration of my debut film.
Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
I have not betrayed Barca, and I'm surprised anyone would doubt my commitment to Barcelona, because I've been a fan since birth.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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 evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
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.
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.
... 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.
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.
To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.
I am tremendously moved anytime anyone gives birth to something from deep within themselves that is pure and authentic.
The work I do when I'm not making music is very much about service, helping women give birth or aiding in family planning.
I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.
Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.
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.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.
I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.
If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.
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.
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.
Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.
Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.
There's not an athlete in the world who doesn't deal with the same issues you and I have: frustrations with our family, dealing with tragedy or loss, or happiness and a child's birth.
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.
Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.
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.
This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.
I can't give birth to my own child; we know that. But it's still embarrassing to me, and that's just how I feel. It's a sensitive subject.
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.
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.
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.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams.
My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.
I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.
I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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