Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black-outs.

— Jim Morrison

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

— E.B. White

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death

— Tiffany Baker

Agitation gives birth to creation.

— Terry Tempest Williams

A goddess of dawn scooted under a zing of barbed wire to witness your birth.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life.

— A.D. Posey

A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.

— Israelmore Ayivor

All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

— Diane Setterfield

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

— Criss Jami