I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.
— Adeline Yen Mah
Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.
— Kahlil Gibran
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
— Erma Bombeck
The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.
— Les Dawson
Blindness to knowledge was his mother and despair of death his father. Darkness and fear gave birth to God. Awareness of truth will kill him.
— C.J. Anderson
I gave birth to most of them MC's ... So when it comes around to the month of May,
Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day. — Roxanne Shante
Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.
— Sathya Sai Baba
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.
— James Whistler
If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.
— Shirley Maclaine
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." — Rabindranath Tagore
It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing that has given birth to the nightmare. — David Whyte
No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit. — Margaret Sanger
When a child is born, there are two births. The birth of the child and the birth of the mother. — Laura Ramirez
The day of birth is a miraculous day. — Lailah Gifty Akita
My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident. — Salman Rushdie
Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child. — Osamu Dazai
My first words, as I was being born [ ... ] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those. — Stephen Fry
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending. — Jack Whitehall
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one. — Thiruvalluvar
She also said her mother was a bitch, but we couldn't choose our birth family. We did have the power to build a new and better one though. — Bijou Hunter
The desires for both a good experience and a healthy baby are very much connected, and there is nothing wrong with wanting both! — Jennetta Billhimer
A child of God, special possession. — Lailah Gifty Akita
My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young. — Morena Baccarin
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go. — L. Ron Hubbard
Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation — Napoleon Bonaparte
God always visit two times in our life first on our birth he is the one who take out from mother's womb second to take back home. — Kishore Bansal
The birth of a child is divine miracle. — Lailah Gifty Akita
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth. — Ted Cruz
I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection. — Jana Wolff
The energy it took to exit mother's womb is the same force required to manifest a dream ... a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push! — T.F. Hodge
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth. — Jessica Lange
Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. — Hermann Hesse
It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth. — Barbara Katz Rothman
The Lord called me from birth, from my mother's womb he gave me my name. — Anonymous
Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us. — Kim Hyesoon
I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance. — Faith Hill
If she raised you, she's your mother," Siri said. "It doesn't matter who gave birth to you." He — Brandon Sanderson
I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me. — Mel Brooks
Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life. — Jerry Weller
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. — Muriel Spark
I served with that son of a bitch, Corporal. Ruiz wouldn't compliment his mother for giving birth to him, if you know what I mean. — John Scalzi
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother's womb and naked will I go into the grave. — Lailah Gifty Akita
The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother's mother, on back to Mother Earth. — Patricia Robin Woodruff
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. — Lorna Luft
It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them. — Craig D. Lounsbrough
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway. — Jennifer Gilmore
When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence. — Marianne Williamson
Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!' — Jasmine Guinness
A mother isn't the person who births you; it's the person who rears you and shows you love. — Raquel Cepeda
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels. — Anthony Of Padua
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. — Koichi Tanaka
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war? — Eve Merriam
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. — Nancy Friday
