Birth

• "To heir is human." — Dolores E. McGuire
• "The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. "— Benito Mussolini
• "The moment you're born you're done for." — Arnold Bennett
• "When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." — Gracie Allen
• "Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape." — Pliny the Elder . 23-79 A. D.
• "Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last." — Charles Dickens
• "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." — Graham Greene
• Stanza 5, Intimations of Immortality. — William Wordsworth, 1770-1850:
  
  Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
  The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
  Hath had elsewhere its setting,
  And cometh from afar.
  Not in entire forgetfulness,
  And not in utter nakedness,
  But trailing clouds of glory, do we come
  From God, who is our home:
  Heaven lies about us in our infancy.