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Birth Quotes

Reflections on beginnings, from the personal to the poetic.

Birth shows up here as both a literal event and a metaphor, covering everything from a person's early temperament to poetic imagery of color and origin. One line even weighs a well-known theological question about possibility and power. Explore the theme further in Beginning quotes.

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Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

Quotes by Adam Conover

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I got married to Doug in 2005. I knew that we wanted to delay having children for a while, and I had tried pretty much every hormonal birth control method under the sun.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

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We know the risks of birth control, and yet we continue to pump it into our system as if we have no choice.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Quotes by Aaron Hill

Beginning Quotes

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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

Quotes by William Wordsworth

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Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

Quotes by Wilford Brimley

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I'm pretty chill, but once birth starts, I go the opposite of chill.

Quotes by Walker Hayes

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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Quotes by Wallace Shawn

Creation Quotes

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It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

Quotes by W. H. Davies

These quotes treat birth as a marker of change, whether in mood, character, or belief. For related ideas on starting points, see Creation quotes.