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

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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

  Eda LeShan

  Inspirational, Dream, Baby

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

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

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  God, Baby, Children

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• 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

  Pregnancy, Giving, Perspective

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

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

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Baby, Pregnancy

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

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

  Robin Lim

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Profound

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• 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

  Birthday, Family, Mother

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Pregnancy, Self, Defense

  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

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

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Strong, Pregnancy

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

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• 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

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Healing

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Funny, Uplifting, Baby

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

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Pregnancy, Birth, Painful

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Pain

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

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

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Ideas, Violence

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.133, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Children, Creativity, Birth

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

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

  William Gilmore Simms

  Birthday, Children, Soul

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

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• 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

  Children, House, Littles

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• 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

  Death, Daughter, Mother

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Children, Grief

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Husband

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

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• 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

  Children, Men, Jehovah

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Art, Children

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.9, Algonquin Books

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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

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• 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

  Children, People, Enemy

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

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• 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

  Sad, Stars, Pain

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