When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective. – Christine Lagarde
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. – Annie Besant
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals. – Arthur Keith
For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it. – Bryce Dallas Howard
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: ‘Moby-Dick.’ – A. N. Wilson
We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. – Albert Claude
From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you. – The Bible Psalm 71:6
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. – Benito Mussolini
We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population. – Christian de Duve
On the track, you know what you’re capable of, but being at the birth, you have no control. – Mo Farah
By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed. – Dora Russell
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973. – Dambisa Moyo
Already at the time of Israel’s birth, Ben-Gurion extended his hand in peace to the Arab nations. His hand was rejected, but it remains extended. – Ehud Olmert
I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too. – MaryJanice Davidson
A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. – The Bible John 16:21