It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. (Quote by - Buddha)

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying. . . . Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. (Quote by - Ivan Illich)

When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed m then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride. (Quote by - Jacob Boehme)

It's a turning point in history, the birth of a nation, and the death almost of a culture. (Quote by - Colin Farrell)

Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down. (Quote by - Michel Odent)

We're going to send her .. a couple of bottles of Seaside Festival wine so she can celebrate the birth of her child. (Quote by - Tim O'Sullivan)

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. (Quote by - Liv Tyler)

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. (Quote by - George Burns)

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

I don't want to go through the pain. My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. (Quote by - Britney Spears)

I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)

At-home birth has been proven to be as safe or safer for low-risk pregnancy women. From what I have seen, birth has its best chance of being normal when it is in a home environment. You have to deliver where you feel safe. (Quote by - Susanne Scott Rosenfeld)

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)

It's just kind of becoming a fun game of learning. We've also been studying what happens after the birth and how to take care of the baby. (Quote by - Tom Cruise)

He would sing 'Happy Birthday,' and he would sing in the loudest, most obnoxious, off-key tone. For him, every day was a birth day. (Quote by - Dusty Rhodes)

The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life. (Quote by - William Of Normandy)

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful. (Quote by - R. D. Laing)

They made very sure that you saw this birth defect up close. We knew she had a cleft lip and palate. But we wanted to see pictures of all of her, not just the lip. (Quote by - Elaine Williams)

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. (Quote by - Buddha)

Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement. (Quote by - Tina Fey)

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)

I think to ignore that piece of work is foolish on any number of levels, .. I think it's a tragic mistake for anybody who really wants to think seriously about those issues - about the issues of race relations in the United States - and how we as a society deal with any kind of contentious issue. ..If you're concerned about race relations issues in the United States today to ignore 'Birth of a Nation' is to put aside a tool that can tell you a lot. (Quote by - Clarence Wyatt)