Birth - Quotes and Proverbs

Here are some proverbs and quotes about birth and born.

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A cockroach cannot give birth to a butterfly.

All the past died yesterday; the future is born today.

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

Sylvia Plath

Blessed is the mother who gives birth to a brewer.

Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.

To be born into a wealthy and privileged family.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Charlotte Brontë

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Mahatma Gandhi

For those who are born into atheism, it's a faith like any other. The only real atheist is an ex-believer.

Gabriel Lauber

From little date seeds, great things are born.

He that is born a fool is never cured.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Anne Frank

I say, if any misanthrope were to put, in my presence, the question 'Why were we born?' I should reply, 'To make an effort'

Charles Dickens
Source: Dombey and Son
Quoted: Mrs. Chick

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love, both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby, it just happens every day.

The Rolling Stones
Source: Paint it Black Lyrics

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

John Steinbeck

If you had to choose a moment in history to be born, and you did not know ahead of time who you would be -- you didn't know whether you were going to be born into a wealthy family or a poor family, what country you'd be born, whether you were going to be a man or a woman -- if you had to choose blindly what moment you'd want to be born you'd choose now.

Barack Obama

It is not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation, which is truly the most important time in your life.

Lewis Wolpert

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Richard Dawkins

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth

The Rolling Stones
Source: Salt of the Earth Lyrics

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Billy Graham

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.

Kofi Annan