Birth Quotes

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  • A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. ~ Frank A. Clark
  • A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. ~ George Gurdjieff
  • Although it is generally known, I think it’s about time to announce that I was born at a very early age. ~ Groucho Marx
  • And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. ~ Anne Ridler
  • Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. ~ Andy Warhol
  • Birth is the only remedy against death. ~ Nigerien Proverb
  • Born a saint, die a sinner — born a sinner, die a saint. ~ Doug Horton
  • Born to be wild — live to outgrow it. ~ Doug Horton
  • Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries. ~ George W. Truett
  • Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~ Author Unknown
  • Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues
  • Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors. ~ Plutarch
  • He that can work is born to be king of something. ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • If age and experience came at birth, we would have neither youth nor mirth. ~ Russian Proverb
  • If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? ~ Mary Astell
  • It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ~ James Augustine
  • Man is born broken. He lives by mending. And, the grace of God is the glue. ~ Eugene O’Neill
  • Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago. ~ H. L. Mencken
  • Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ~ Erich Fromm
  • Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
  • Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. ~ Erich Fromm
  • No child was ever born without having been conceived. ~ Burmese Proverb
  • No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
  • One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something. ~ Henry David Thoreau
  • Our birth is nothing but our death begun. ~ Edward Young
  • Some people are born to lift heavy weights; some are born to juggle golden balls. ~ Max Beerbohm
  • The pumpkin gives birth and the fence has the trouble. ~ Moroccan Proverb
  • The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship under sail, and a woman after the birth of a child. ~ Irish Proverb
  • We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • We are all born mad. Some remain so. ~ Samuel Beckett
  • We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ~ Eric Berne
  • We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • We were born to succeed, not to fail. ~ Henry David Thoreau
  • When I was born I owed twelve dollars. ~ George S. Kaufman
  • When we are born we cry that we are come… to this great stage of fools. ~ William Shakespeare
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