B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance”
Source: The Casual Vacancy
“Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.”
“Birth brings with it happiness and attachment; death brings with it sadness and renunciation”
“Birth-certificate doesn't certify birth, accountability does.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.”
“Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.”
“Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.”
“Birth control?” he asks.
“Obviously, but—”
“Got it,” he says. Of course he does. He’s just like me: even when we’re both out-of-control obsessed with each other there are still a few (dozen) threads holding reason in place. Charlie moves off me, finds his wallet, and comes back with a condom, no further questions asked, no huffing, no hint at frustration, no implied uptight, nag, or bore. He tucks his hand against my jaw and kisses me with a tenderness I feel all through my body, all these little pockets of warmth nestled between bones and muscle and cartilage: Charlie, diffused into my bloodstream”
Source: Book Lovers
“Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”
“Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.”
“Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.”
“Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“Birth control methods have no benefit, whatsoever, for the multitude. But they are only useful to the government that wishes to control its small populated nation.”
“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
“Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.”
“Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.”
Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic
“Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.”
“Birth defects dropped in the general population after folate was added to grain products.”
Source: Pandemic Supplements
“Birth doesn't ask you to be fearless. It asks you to be brave.”
Source: Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood
“Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual.”
“Birth into fortune is no achievement. Achievement comes when those with silver spoons remember that they owe life a debt payable by sharing with those without spoon.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.”
Source: Reason in Religion
“Birth is a beautiful thing.”
“Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.”
“Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations. Debra Evans, Heart and Home”
“Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.”
“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
“Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.”
Source: The Stone Gods
“Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength”
Source: A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
“Birth is as old as humanity itself. That means that simply by being human, you can birth. Your body will grow your baby and birth your baby all without you doing a single thing to make it happen. This isn't to say that certain things won't help it along and make it easier, but even without those things, you will birth. Your body knows how. It is your mindset and the culture that you live in that is the real obstacle to you actually getting a natural birth”
Source: Your Empowered Birth: Get The Birth You Want
“Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprème de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croûtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.”
Source: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
“Birth is experiential. You have to experience it to fully know it. An exercise such as Bellydance for birth embraced during pregnancy can act as a purposeful tool to help a woman before she steps in through the gateway of birth. One of the key elements of the birth dance is that it can help bridge the gap between the primal brain (which knows how to give birth) and the modern woman (who may need to be reminded of her instinctual capacity), assisting her to claim back her most basic and inherent right as the Deliverer of Life.”
Source: Dance of the Womb - The Essential Guide to Belly Dance for Pregnancy and Birth
“Birth is life's first lottery ticket.”
Source: Be Careful What You Wish For
“Birth is luck. Good parenting is a blessing from God. Growing up is God's gift. Finding a job is finding you in (Matthew 7:7).”
“Birth is not a beginning; it’s a continuation. That lends tremendous comfort because we then understand that, equally true, death is not an end; it’s merely a continuation.”
“Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.”
“Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.”
“Birth is not birth, for many die old without ever being born. To be born you gotta die to yourself, otherwise, you are just walking unborn.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.”
Source: A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
“Birth is not the beginning of life - only of an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death - only the ending of this awareness.”
Source: Corpus Hermeticum
“Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.”
“Birth is not the source and death is not the destination, We are stuck in endless loop.”
“Birth is nothing where virtue is not”
“Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.”
“Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.”
“Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.”
“Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.”
Source: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times