Best birth & stories Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.”

“Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.”

Giving Sometimes Character Stories Turns Grows Walks Birth Hero Familiar Bridges Twists Here And There Twists And Turns

Book:Blood Red, Snow White: n/a

Source: Blood Red, Snow White: n/a

“Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.”

Life Stories Lying Process Consciousness Fate Birth Shadow Complexes Myth Unconscious Cycles Arrivals Archetype Solidity Cycle Of Life

Book:Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

Source: Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

“If you knew everyone's story, you would love them. You can't really hate anyone if you know everything that happened to them between their birth and now; why they became the way they became; why they have walls up or down. If you truly know someone, you'd get it.”

Ifs Knows Way Stories Hate Happened Wall Birth Walls Up

Author:Emma Stone

“The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions. If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that? Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”

“Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.”

Men Feels Kind Facts Stories Form Birth Profound Ancient Tales Traditional Mortals Appeals Life And Death Irresistible Primal Resisting Shuffling

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.”

Stories Easy Cities Violence Conditions Birth Involved Responsible Thanks Neglect Cracks Inner City Easy Money

Author:Questlove

“Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.”

Men May Stories Song Jesus Lines Wise Inspire Materials Birth Plot Hanukkah Plot Lines Frankincense

Author:Matisyahu

“This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.”

Character Stories Happened Birth Pages Scripts Basic Things

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.”

Men Trying Different Stories Four Birth Winter Versions Journal

Author:Paul Auster

“I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.”

Two Stories Born Months Birth Six Pounds Heroic Six Months

Author:Etgar Keret

“I think tone gives birth to the story.”

Thinking Giving Stories Birth Tone

Author:Etgar Keret

“I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight babies at once, it's amazing... And I know, it's horrible to have your money stolen and all that, but those are amazing stories.”

Thinking Knows Giving Humans Facts Stories Today Levels Baby Birth Eight Horrible Folly Schemes Stolen Giving Birth Slapstick Ponzi Scheme

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So Jesus' life was the life of God nurtured through the Virgin Mary. That's because the virgin birth died as a literal story as soon as we discovered that women had an egg cell. It's interesting to watch what the Roman church did about that.”

Humans Stories Mother Father Jesus Church Interesting Watches Birth Died Cells Eggs Mary Virgins Literal Virgin Mary Virgin Birth

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured the book like one of her stripteases: revealing a peek of shoulder, then a glimpse of knee, pulling back a bit before you go a bit further, until all is revealed at the end.”

Book Ends Stories Would Be Bits Birth Rose Ill Shoulders Narrative Knees Conventional Pulling Glimpse Revealing Gypsy

Author:Karen Abbott

“My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our unique opportunity to participate through our own conscious evolution.”

Stories Humanity Opportunity Evolution Birth Unique Conscious Universal Missions Awakening Unique Opportunities

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.”

Stories Body Young Birth Overcoming Hated Young Women Defects Body Confidence Birth Defects

Author:Ariel Winter

“Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of Jesus. He never mentions the shepherds or the manger, but he didn't want us to miss the star and the seekers. It's easy to see why. Their story is our story.”

Want Stories Jesus Stars Easy Missing Birth Narrative Squares Inches Want U Seekers Shepherds Matthew Jesus Birth

Author:Max Lucado

“The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.”

Thinking Kind Stills Stories Today Technology Audience Taken Birth Bases Fundamentals Remains Good Story Mindless

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.”

Stories Our Lives Birth Continuation

Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”

Knows Want Mind Heart Children Soul Stories Asks Born Birth Universal Traits Heart Mind And Soul

Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter”

Thinking Firsts Humans Important Whole Stories Born Pieces Our Lives Impossible Birth Winter Setting Settings Human Life Vida Strings Knots

Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.”

Love Children Stories Age Fall Parent Realizing Cases Birth Promise Lucky Tests Falling In Love Wander Realization Settling Phrases Mortality Story Of My Life Birth And Death

Author:Mitch Albom

“One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she's born she'll scream and I'll tell her to never stop I will kiss her before I lay her down at night and will tell her a story so she knows how it is and how it must be for her to survive I'll tell her to set things on fire and keep them burning I'll teach her that fire will not consume her that she must use it”

Knows Giving Stories Use Night Girl Born Teach Know How Fire Baby Birth One Day Kissing Lays Tiny Burning Scream Baby Girl

Author:Nicole Blackman

“Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.”

World May Helping Stories Jesus Powerful Rich Birth Christmas Underdog Powerful God

Book:The Jesus I Never Knew

Source: The Jesus I Never Knew

“It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.”

Source: The Last Sin Eater

“I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.”

Knows World Writing Whole Stories Women Half Birth Directors Population Feminist Whole World Women Empowerment Screenwriters Screenwriting

Author:Jane Campion

“At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.”

Knows Firsts Littles War Ends Stories Might Left Forget Mistake Heard Birth One Day Thousand Comfortable Tragedy Criminals Graves Coincidence Forget It Charlie Larks War Stories Small Mistakes

Author:Holly Black

“All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.”

Humans Long Stills Moments Stories Stars Effort Birth Passionate Disaster Tragic Lasting Host Galaxy Here And There Unimportant Barren Casualties

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. In the feminine mystique, there is no other way for a woman to dream of creation or of the future. There is no other way she can even dream about herself, except as her children's mother, her husband's wife.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Years Looks Children Moments Stories Dream Mother Wife Creation Birth Husband Deny Magazines Fulfillment Repeats Feminine Giving Birth Mystique Feminine Mystique

Author:Betty Friedan

“If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place.”

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