No man was born empty.

Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Is this not a fatal time for us poor women? This is our kind of war There our Mother Cihuacoatl Quilaztli Takes her tribute of death.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

I am still not clear how I got here.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

God makes the world all over again, whenever a little child is born.

Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

God one morning, glad of heaven, Laughed-and that was you!

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

There are no illegitimate babies.