Newborn Quotes - Page 6

• It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.

  Chris Hadfield

  Baby, Color, Smell

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Children, Writing, Elderly

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Personality, Firsts

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Children, College

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• If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Heart

  "How Republicans can become 'compassionate conservatives' again" by Gary Bauer, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2013.

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• The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn’t matter what body it came out of. I’ve never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

  Edie Falco

  Body, Matter, Felt

  "Edie Falco’s Son Thinks Everyone Is Adopted" by Jessica Samakow, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2012.

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• My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Running, Teacher, Jobs

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• It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

  Vic Snyder

  Senior, Important, Age

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• I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Baby, Grief

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

  Leif Enger

  Children, Miracle, Looks

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.202, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Blessed, Reality, Matter

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.66, Рипол Классик

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• I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Children, Criminals, Alive

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.28, Penguin

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• He said you sparkle like a newborn galaxy and have more attitude than a rich kid with his daddy's Porsche.

  Darynda Jones

  Attitude, Kids, Daddy

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.262, Macmillan

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• And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy.

  Suzanne Collins

  Boys, Annie, Finnick

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• My colleagues and I fought to increase the resources to address several things, like maternity, prenatal, and newborn care, and mental health and substance abuse treatment. These are things everybody should care about, and resources should be available for families.

  Martha McSally

  Abuse, Care, Mental Health

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago - crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  "Obama: 'I have been an imperfect father'" by Barack Obama, www.today.com. May 27, 2010.

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• I'm not really sure what the psychology is, but for me, I'm interested in it because it's such a juxtaposition to what is going on in my life with a newborn, as you can see. So because of that juxtaposition I'm really fascinated by it, but I'm equally terrified by it, and I think that diving in it makes me feel safer as a woman and a mother for some reason.

  Teresa Palmer

  Mother, Thinking, Psychology

  Source: collider.com

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• When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess that we disown the devil, his pomp, and his angels. After this we are immersed three times, making a somewhat larger pledge than the Lord appointed in the Gospel. Then we are taken up [a reference to the Roman tradition of recognizing a newborn baby as a member of the family]. We first taste a mixture of milk and honey and from that day we refrain from the daily bath for a whole week.

  Tertullian

  Baby, Taken, Angel

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• A newborn has more skills than does a politician. The infant babbles, burbles, cuddles, coos; the politician just babbles.

  Derek Cooper

  Skills, Doe, Politics

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• Most people believe a new idea must be fully baked and ready-for-primetime. That is like saying a newborn child should have a college degree and be self-sustaining on day one. Like children, new ideas need to be nurtured, shaped, and protected. People often hold back ideas since they are not ready to defend sharp criticism. Companies that celebrate "creative sparks" and reserve judgment while ideas mature are the ones that enjoy significantly more creativity and innovation.

  Josh Linkner

  Children, Believe, Creativity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Hands, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1838). “An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 July, 1838”, p.27

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• Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• Instead of being a static one-time event, bonding is a process, a dynamic and continuous one. Thus, a reciprocal, loving attachment is still realizable even when early contact is delayed--as it is for many mothers and their prematurely born infants, or when illness of either the newborn or the mother intervenes.

  Julius Segal

  Mother, Attachment, Events

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• My sister just had a baby, a little newborn. The kid is adorable, so cute. She wouldn't let me hold him, she refuses. She says, 'No way, Anthony, I'm afraid you're gonna drop him.' I'm 32 years old. Like I'm some kind of idiot. Like I don't have a million other ways to hurt that baby.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Cute, Baby

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• Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular.

  Henri Nouwen

  Powerful, Children, Mean

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.3, Harper Collins

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