Birth Quotes

I often like to say “Well I remember being born and slipping out of my mother and looking back up and saying – Well that’s the last time I’m ever going up one of those!”

The moment you’re born you’re done for.

Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.

There is (sic) two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is – twins.

My mother groan’d, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud, Like a fiend hid in a cloud.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.

Birth is the beginning of death.

We all enter the world in the same way: naked, screaming, soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn’t have to stop there.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it’s like to get pregnant, carry a hild and breast feed.