Francis Bacon Quotes

“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time.”

“It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.”

“the twelve royal gifts of birth belong to every child, born anywhere, at anytime" -”

“If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.”

“A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.”

“Birthday, Birthday, Birthday! Celebrate your day of birth, no matter the circumstances of your birth. Be thankful and joyful for the gift of life on this divine day.”

“And then he draws the lamb in one smooth strong stroke, and slaps and rakes its wet mosslike fur to make it breathe, feels the power of its fast heartbeat in the chicken-bone cage of its ribs, still wet in his hands from the grease of birth, all these things of life, from jissom to mucus slavered between thighs to the wet sack of birth and glistening oiled newborn thing—all of these things of life awatered.”

“Animals give birth to children, so that alone is not an argument strong enough to make a human a man. Otherwise goats, dogs and pigs could beat us to the game, because they could do in one go what will take man years to accomplish. A woman can only give birth to a number of kids at a time, in a year, while some animals could give birth to as many as tens of breeds in a year.”

“Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.”

“Birth was the death of him.”