“God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God.” HardBirthEternalStriveWitnessGod LoveBirth And Death Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“That happens a lot when people become parents, too. There's just so much at stake suddenly, and you're also witness to the total miracle of birth, and stuff like that. So I started reading tons of religious texts and checking everything out. One of the things I wanted to make sure of on the record is that it still has a "searching" vibe rather than an authoritative vibe.” PeopleStillsHappensWantedReadingStuffParentReligiousRecordsBirthMiracleWitnessStakesReligious Texts Author:Mason Jennings
“It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.” IfsIdeasSeemsAbleNextMysteryBirthWitness Author:Paul Auster
“I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know. This painless birth, like an unsolicited proof, gives me untold pleasure, and with neither toil nor certainty but the joy of frank astonishment I follow the pen that is guiding and supporting me.” KnowsWantGivingMightJoyPleasureTeachingBirthPaperGive MeSentencesProofCertaintyWitnessSpitePensFrankSheetsToilAstonishmentPainless Author:Muriel Barbery
“Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.” PeopleIfsGivingChildrenMadeHandsSchoolLawMotherNightParentLosesBirthSickGive MeParentingDeedsI RealizedChosenWitnessLabelsYour ChildrenSatCriedAdoptionBeing A ParentLaw SchoolGiving BirthSchool GraduationBearing Witness Book:Handle with Care: A Novel Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favorite. Van Gogh comes in second, but he really was batshit insane.” ThinkingDoeCenturyBirthGeniusAuthorityTraditionWeightTwentiesInsaneWitnessStaringVansTwenty OneCountrymenPerksBearing Witness Book:The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"” FirstsMeanMomBirthHealthyRepublicanHearingWitnessColleaguesBadassBirth ControlSingle WomenHealthy Family Author:Carolyn Maloney