Birth Of A Child Quotes by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, William Macneile Dixon, George Vaillant, James A. Baldwin, Eleanor Roosevelt and many others.
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
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.
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.
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.
There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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.
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.
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.
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception
Birth is about making mothers… strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
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.
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.
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.
Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
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