Top 100 Child Is Born Quotes
#1. I love the predictions of a man right before his first child is born," Flowers said. "They're like little snowflakes. Right before the sun comes blazing out the clouds and melts those happy dreams away.
Michael Chabon
#2. Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#3. The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.
Reynolds Price
#4. For to us a child is born,
for to us a son is given,
and the government shall be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Isaiah 9:6
Anonymous
#5. How can we talk about the rights of a fertilized egg when we don't care enough to see that every child is born into a stable, safe, and nurturing environment?
Rebecca Warner
#6. For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
Gilbert Parker
#7. Every time a child is born, we have another chance.
Eda LeShan
#8. A child is born with no state of mind,
Blind to the ways of mankind.
God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too,
Because only God knows what you'll go through.
Melvin Glover
#9. A child is born to win, but too many have been conditioned to lose.
Zig Ziglar
#10. When a child is born, the exact moment it draws its first breath should be noted, as that moment, and not the time of delivery, is the time of birth from the astrologer's point of view.
Max Heindel
#11. You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Dogen
#12. Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
Orlando Bloom
#13. A new star shines bright.
Angels herald the good news.
The Christ child is born.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#15. It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?
Benjamin Franklin
#16. 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon [4] his shoulder, and his name shall be called [5] Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Anonymous
#18. The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd,
The child is born by many a pang endear'd
And now the mother's ear has caught his cry;
O grant the cherub to her asking eye!
He comes
she clasps him. To her bosom press'd
He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.
Samuel Rogers
#19. Like the death of a crone in one twin bed as a child is born in the other. Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying.
Sharon Olds
#20. Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.
Stephen King
#21. I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong ... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?
Emily Mortimer
#22. If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
Hannah Storm
#23. At the moment of giving birth to a child, is the mother separate from the child? You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. - Dogen Zenji, Mountains and Waters Sutra
Karen Maezen Miller
#24. When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on. Maybe your grandmom and your grandpop have something to add to the name of the child.
Dikembe Mutombo
#25. Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#26. A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.
Peter Shaffer
#27. When a child is born, there are two births. The birth of the child and the birth of the mother.
Laura Ramirez
#28. I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.
Gretchen Carlson
#29. From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.
Jean Piaget
#30. The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.
Rikki Ducornet
#32. If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.
Brian K. Vaughan
#33. When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.
Tracy Morgan
#34. A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
Benjamin Franklin
#35. If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can't give a child any greater place from which to fly.
Amanda Bearse
#36. The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
W. Edwards Deming
#37. Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye - the body can never be pure.
Anthony Doerr
#38. Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.
Rumer Godden
#39. Isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it.
Anthony Doerr
#40. On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.
Elvis Presley
#41. The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.
Nia Long
#42. When a child is born in a jail and during their life all they know is the jail they were born into, the idea of freedom becomes so terrifying that they ridicule the very thought of being free, as a clinical illness. It is nothing like the song that a caged bird sings.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#43. People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
Bill Murray
#44. The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
Daniel Hannan
#45. Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.
Ernest Gaines
#46. Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.
Walt Disney
#47. It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !
Osho
#49. When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"
Harold S. Kushner
#50. Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by the time they put in an appearance you are used to giving things up for them.
Brett Kiellerop-Morris
#51. No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.
Jeannette Walls
#52. My mom thought having a child was going to be like having a partner, but every child is born the center of its own universe, incapable of understanding the world beyond its own wants and needs, and I was no different.
Trevor Noah
#54. When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.
Ina May Gaskin
#55. From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.
Billy Graham
#56. When a child is born into this world it has no concept of the tone the skin is living in.
Neneh Cherry
#57. Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#58. When a child is born, it is immersed in an atmosphere charged with the stellar vibrations peculiar to that moment, which are stamped upon each atom of the sensitive organism by the air inhaled with the first breath.
Max Heindel
#59. No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.
Lin Yutang
#60. Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.
Henry B. Eyring
#61. Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
James Freeman Clarke
#62. Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
Harlan Coben
#63. I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
Jeremy Northam
#64. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney
#65. Some of what you see, my child, may make you affraid, revolted even, but you must remember that all life is born of corruption. The reborn can rise only from death and decay. Resurrection springs only from the tomb.
Karen Maitland
#66. Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?
Marianne Curley
#67. I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.
Andrew Solomon
#68. It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
Maria Montessori
#69. A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.
Peter Hoeg
#70. The experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.
Margaret Mead
#71. Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield
#72. Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally ... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on ...
Laura Nyro
#73. A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday.
Johan Norberg
#74. The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
Roald Dahl
#75. Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.
Joanne Woodward
#76. I put my faith in Christ as a child. At a young age, I had a simple understanding of these basic facts: I was born a sinner; my nature is inclined toward sin. God, the Creator of all, establishes that there is punishment for sin. He will judge my sin, and I should receive His wrath.
Carrie Ward
#77. Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#78. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He
Cormac McCarthy
#79. Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.
Steven Weinberg
#81. The start of empowering women comes with acknowledgment of thought that every born child is equal irrespective of its sex.
Nikita Dudani
#82. A child born today will experience an increase to sea level of about three to six feet. The rate of change is so remarkable and so dramatic. We are already seeing the consequences of man-made climate change.
Jeff Orlowski
#83. Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.
G.K. Chesterton
#84. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.
Marianne Williamson
#85. What kind of ethical philosophy is it that condemns every child, even before it is born, to inherit the sin of a remote ancestor? Augustine,
Richard Dawkins
#86. A child conceived on Christmas Eve is considered unlucky and will later resent his parents for their unholy transgression, their lack of control and piety. The child may be deformed with a harelip or be cursed with the ears and head of a wolf. Or the infant may be born a werewolf.
Jody Shields
#87. In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.
Constantin Stanislavski
#88. If blood alone is what defines us, no child born is born in freedom.
Nalini Singh
#89. I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no
other man than that I am.
Sophocles
#90. My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.
Andrea Bocelli
#91. From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the new-born baby to the child of five is an appalling distance. - LEO TOLSTOI
Ernest Becker
#92. Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.
Salman Rushdie
#93. When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.
Elizabeth McCracken
#94. Through the eyes of a child, imagination is born. Always stay young at heart!
Sheila Renee Parker
#95. It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
Ted Cruz
#96. Jazz, Miss Lily, is the bastard child of music, born from the old Negro work song by a whole lot of fine daddies who ain't about to claim it.
Beatriz Williams
#97. Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
Martin Luther
#98. When a hideous man becomes a father
And a son is born to him
In the middle of the night
He trembles and lights a lamp
And runs to look in anguish
On that child's face
To see who he resembles.
Zhuangzi
#99. A child who was born with a silver spoon is likely to not appreciate all he is provided with.
And it is likely that a child who grew up from the dust to look down on others once the floods gate of success opens up for him.
It is NOT where you come FROM that matters,
But where you are GOING.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#100. The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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