905 Quotes About Birth

St. Augustine: “The Church is a whore, but she’s my mother.” She is a mess and has many illegitimate children. But she is also our momma and managed to give birth to us and to give us enough of the truth that we have been able to ask the questions that we have in this book.

You better get it while you canYou better get it while you canIf you wait too long, it'll all be goneAnd you'll be sorry thenIt doesn't matter if you're rich or poorAnd it's the same for a woman or a manFrom the cradle to the cryptIs a mighty short tripSo you better get it while you can

Outside november night gathersWith a harmony of autumn leavesBlown down a wind.Quietly by the fire TaliesinHumming from within his closing hoodPlaces the seeing child on to a chair. And the glowing head is clothedIn a vestment with brightColours spreading.Together two voices riseUntil at the end of breath one soarsAnd one falls away......echoing.- Circle of Gold

You are not a biomass, you were not born only to be like a bush or tree, just to marry, reproduce and die

Taya found that the scent of childbirth lingers, its odor distinct like dirt and rain, unique as horses, or autumn’s leafy deadfall, or the ocean. The womb’s peculiar smell is round, a cloyed metallic musk, the scent of dense nutrients and cell divisions, and the very beginning of decay. For as soon as life begins, decay begins as well—at least in this world it does. This world that relentlessly repeats the same two themes over and over:Birth.Death.With varying degrees of life in between.

Through nine months of historyI crouched in shadowListening to blood whispering.As I turned towards the tunnelOf birth I rode an endlessBreaker of blood to pitchOn a strand of life and death."- Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin

A tree dies torn from its roots; a man begins to live.

We are born twice. When we leave our mother's womb and when we leave our father's house.

I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.