Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.
Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events in the background.
According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.
I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.
I'm just feeling like it was meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his life, we won a Super Bowl Championship.
I struggled coming to terms with the fact that I'd been assigned female at birth, but that I didn't feel like a girl or a woman or a man or a boy.
I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.
We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
It took a lot for me to feel mentally stable after giving birth and, physically, my body felt torn apart.
I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.
For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.
Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the
body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul
is ancient, the stuff of stars.
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.
The typical conditions for the birth of a bull market are here: you have a changed country, you have a deep fall in growth and everybody is perplexed by the rise of stocks.
Now did you know if a stick insect laid it's eggs in a jar of Bovril it will give birth to a litter of twiglets.
If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.
"Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth." ... I found my brand. Just don't get the ones that say, "Lung Cancer."
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
My favorite shirt to sleep in is the one my birth mom was wearing when she died in my arms. Morbid for some perhaps but comforting to me.
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
Donald Trump has told me that he is proud of the fact that he finally got Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate.
I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.
Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.
The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.
After giving birth, I never brushed my hair, my teeth, or took a shower. I looked in the mirror one day and was really depressed.
Being pregnant is a marvellous experience. Before, I was afraid about the idea of giving birth, but now, I'm really looking forward to it.
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.
I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.
For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.
Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.
It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.
This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
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