Quotes About First Born Children

#1. Relatively many autists are first-born children. There is also a pretty widespread conviction that the parents of autists are somehow different - for instance, many of them are very serious people or people who are themselves under some sort of strain.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

#2. My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

Columba Bush

#3. I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.

Miyavi

#4. An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Jill Lepore

#5. He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children.
Is that the first sign of love?
You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.

Alyson Richman

#6. Mr. Beecher used to say that the first thing for a man to do, if he would succeed in life, was to be careful to "choose a good father and mother to be born of.

John C. Carlile

#7. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
And sweet thyme true,
Primrose, first born child of Ver,
Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

Francis Beaumont

#8. Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#10. You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

Raymond E. Feist

#11. Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

Douglas MacArthur

#12. Stop and consider! life is but a day

John Keats

#13. When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

Ken Burns

#15. I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Dave Grohl

#16. I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big
enough for different values to coexist.

Haruki Murakami

#17. With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free.

George W. Bush

#18. I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

Shirley Maclaine

#19. I will do anything for Guillermo del Toro, if he asked me. I would give him my first-born child.

Robert Kazinsky

#20. My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children and that's all I remember.

Toni Morrison

#21. Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

Anais Nin

#22. When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children,

Bob Marshall

#23. Hattie's children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee.

Ayana Mathis

#24. Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

Seth Godin

#25. Romans marveled that in Egypt female children were not left to die; a Roman was obligated to raise only his first-born daughter.

Stacy Schiff

#26. The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

Euripides

#27. Then, as a child does, she grew to accept the first great absence in her life, a weaning from the sure certainty that all children are born with - that it was no country where loss could come their way, that nothing would ever change in that place called home.

Kalyan Ray

#28. All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#29. There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

Alice Morse Earle

#30. The first of Sam and Rosie's children was born on the twenty-fifth of March, a date that Sam noted.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#31. I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.

Francois Englert

#32. We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

Jimmy Carter

#33. I can always track my career by the children - I started writing right after the 14-year-old was born, and sold my first book just in time to pay for the birth of the 12-year-old.

Heather Graham Pozzessere

#34. It is difficult to predict, especially the future.

Niels Bohr

#35. Like the tide eroding the surface of a rock, the raising of children slowly eats away at all the fanciful ideals and standards that you were so adamant about when your first child was born.

Jon Ziegler