Birth Of A Child Quotes:

It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. . . The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.

- Grantly Dick-Read

topic: Mother, Spiritual, Children, Childbirth, Birth Of A Child

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

- Eda LeShan

source: Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Baby, Inspirational Baby, My Baby Boy

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

topic: Baby, Children, World, Baby Boy, New Thought

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

- William Macneile Dixon

source: William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

topic: Giving, Miracle, Looks, Childbirth, Giving Birth

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers,

- Barbara Katz Rothman

source: Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

topic: Mother, Baby, Birth, Childbirth, Inspirational Pregnancy

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Birthday, Family, Mother, Faerie, Fairy Godmother

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

- Robin Lim

topic: Inspiring, Pregnancy, Profound, Initiation, Were Pregnant

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.815, Open Road Media

topic: Pregnancy, Self, Defense, Childbirth, Birth Of A Child

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

- Barbara Katz Rothman

source: Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press

topic: Mother, Strong, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Inspirational Pregnancy

The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.

- Stephen Gaskin

topic: Pregnancy, Healing, Compassion, Childbirth, Giving Birth

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Funny, Uplifting, Baby, My Baby Boy, Baby Boy

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

- Grantly Dick-Read

topic: Pregnancy, Painful, Natural, Childbirth, Bodily Functions

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

- George Vaillant

source: George E. Vaillant (1995). “The Wisdom of the Ego”, p.230, Harvard University Press

topic: Children, Creativity, Birth, Birth Of A Child

There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: Source: www.iaphitalia.org

topic: Children, House, Littles, Birth Of A Child

In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.

- Henry Adams

source: Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.72, Penguin

topic: Mother, Children, Pain, Empresses, Birth Of A Child

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Children, Ideas, Violence, Birth Of A Child

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

- Richard Louv

topic: Art, Falling In Love, Children, Birth Of A Child

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

- William Gilmore Simms

source: William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.26

topic: Birthday, Children, Soul, Birth Of A Child

Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.

- Francois Rabelais

topic: Death, Daughter, Mother, Suffocating, Birth Of A Child

There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Falling In Love, Children, Grief, Finding God, Birth Of A Child

The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.

- Susan Cheever

source: Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

topic: Mother, Husband, Children, Birth Of A Child

Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more moved by life, the older I get, so it's easier to connect to the characters that I play.

- Milo Ventimiglia

source: Source: www.assignmentx.com

topic: Children, Character, Loss, Loss Of A Child, Birth Of A Child

Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship? A lot of people believe it. It's not in the 14th Amendment. You know where it is? It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Children, Believe, People, 14th Amendment, Birth Of A Child

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.

- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

topic: Children, Men, Jehovah, Adam And Eve, Birth Of A Child

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Sad, Stars, Pain, Coarse, Birth Of A Child

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

- Jock Sturges

source: "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

topic: Mother, Children, Pregnancy, First Pregnancy, Birth Of A Child

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

- Henry B. Eyring

source: "The Family". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. October 1998.

topic: Children, People, Enemy, Causes Of Poverty, Birth Of A Child