(142 quotes found)
“I don't think it's very realistic to not talk. When you're really at a birth, and you can see a woman is needing some help, words tend to be a way to help.”
Mallory Mensah
“It's like childbirth. It’s uncomfortable, painful, sometimes bloody, but you’re always being stretched.”
Dr. Howard Tullman
“When a child is born, so are grandmothers.”
Judith Levy
“It [giving birth] was easier than having a tattoo."”
Nicole Appleton
“Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”
Sam Levenson
“From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.”
Sophie Tucker
“You might laugh when I say this, but I guess it's like your wife having a newborn. You hold it in your hands for the first time and get that exciting feeling to be a father. It's just exciting for us to continue to keep this run going. It can't be any better than this.”
Trent Strickland
“If you bring the baby to us within 72 hours of birth and if there is no harm deliberately inflicted after the birth, then we take the baby, we ask no questions, and we're grateful that the baby's life has been saved,”
George Ward
“He doesn't speak, the newborn? Why his entire being shouts out, "Don't touch me! Don't touch me!" And yet at the same time, imploringly, begging, "Don't leave me! Don't leave me!" This is birth. This is the torture, the Calvary.”
Dr. Frederick Leboyer
“When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.”
Carlos Santana
