Being born is like being kidnapped And then sold into slavery.
Birth Quotes
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
The soul is born… It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly […]
My female friends had told me that giving birth was like shitting a water melon. They lied. It’s like excreting a block of flats -complete with patios, awnings, clothes-lines, television aerials, satellite dishes, back-yard barbecues, kidney-shaped swimming pools, gazebos and double-garage extensions with the cars parked outside.
Why, when I was told the news, I felt wings upon my shoes; And gallivanted down the street, Wanting to be indiscreet. And shout to all the world that I, Was about to multiply.
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Being born, we die; our end is consequent on our beginning.
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
