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“When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.”

Book:Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

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“It was difficult to anticipate—in these monsters with enormous, fantastic beaks which they opened wide immediately after birth, hissing greedily to show the backs of their throats, in these lizards with frail, naked bodies of hunchbacks—the future peacocks, pheasants, grouse or condors. Placed in cotton wool, in baskets, this dragon brood lifted blind, walleyed heads on thin necks, croaking voicelessly from their dumb throats.”

Birth Birds Future Peacocks Lizard Hunchbacks Walleyed Heads

Book:The Street of Crocodiles

Source: The Street of Crocodiles

“Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.”

Poetry Criticism Judgement

Book:The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

Source: The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

“The well padded astrologer stroked his corpulent belly, as he stared down intently at his cowrie board. There was a frown on his moon shaped face, a face that had always considered good rich food his birthright, even as he strove to read the cryptic messages that the Gods were strewing before him.”

Fear Birth Moon Good Bad Astrologer

Book:Chronicles of Urban Nomads

Source: Chronicles of Urban Nomads

“The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.”

World Joy Parent Birth Birthday Parenthood Joy Of Life Parenting Children Joy Of Living Parental Love Birth Mother Birth Rights Joy Of Having A Child Joy Of Parenthood

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Love is the first feeling we felt since birth and the last thing will need in Death.”

Love Death Birth

Author:Ricardo Luis Ivan I Geronimo

“Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.”

World Children Childhood Birth Exciting Parenting Parents Excitement Child Parents And Children Childbirth Parents Quotes Parents And Responsibility New Birth New Born Child Behavior

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore...especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.”

Children Humor Marriage Birth Garden Faithfulness

Book:Down the garden path

Source: Down the garden path

“Takes birth in me, also, dies in debris. I am a Potpourri. A mix of dead petals, effusing divine fragrance. Walking on the journey, of controversy. I am a Potpourri.”

Life Death Journey Birth Philosophy Of Life Controversy Fragrance Petals Potpourri

Author:Jasleen Kaur Gumber

“Guaravacan del Guaicuì: vossignoria prenda nota di questo nome. Ma, non esiste più, non si trova – ultimamente, quel posto si chiama Caixeiropoli; e dicono che là adesso ci vengono le febbri. In quel tempo, no. No che io mi ricordi. Ma fu in quel luogo, in quel tempo, che il mio destino fu suggellato. È possibile che ci sia un punto definito, da cui uno non può più tornare indietro? Traversia della mia vita. Guaravacan – vossignoria veda, vossignoria scriva. Le grandi cose, prima che accadano. Adesso, il mondo vuol restare senza sertao. […] Quel luogo, l'aria. […] Il vento è verde. Lì, nell'intervallo, uno prende il silenzio e se lo mette sulle ginocchia. Io sono di dove nacqui. Sono di altri luoghi. Ma, là, a Guaravacan, io stavo bene.”

Birth Places Spaces Luoghi Nascita Grande Sertao Spazi

Book:Grande Sertão: Veredas

Source: Grande Sertão: Veredas

“...fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone, we're left with the concept, but not the true memory--why else...would anyone give birth more than once?”

Fear Birth Memory

Book:The Tiger's Wife

Source: The Tiger's Wife

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