Birth

“He is born naked, and falls a whining at the first.”

“Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.”

“Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

“There are two most powerful days in your life: the day you're born, and the day you discover why.”

“As some divinely gifted man,Who breaks his birth's invidious bar.”

“Esaw selleth his byrthright for a messe of potage.”

“And show me your nest with the young ones in it, I am seven times one to-day.”

“Lest, selling that noble inheritance for a poor mess of perishing pottage, you never enter into His eternal rest.”

“Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.”

“The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.”

“Do you know who made you?" "Nobody, as I knows on," said the child, with a short laugh. The idea appeared to amuse her considerably; for her eyes twinkled, and she added— "I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.”

“When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.”