The Birth Of Your First Child Quotes

#1. If I were capable of human emotions, tears of joy would have been streaming down my face. You know that feeling you experience upon witnessing the birth of your first child? It was like that, only a thousand times better, because free burritos were involved.

Nathan Rabin

#2. Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child ... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.

Anita Diamant

#3. Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.

Caitlin Thomas

#4. Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

Tom Stoppard

#5. The best-kept secret about Don Johnson is the fact that he is a terrific actor.

Michael Mann

#6. Give a child a good birth (if at all possible, no drugs to the mother)=1
and a good first three years, especially a good first three months, and a major part of the job of child rearing is done.

Arthur Janov

#7. I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#8. This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child ... .

Eric Zorn

#9. If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

Roger Bannister

#10. Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken

M T Anderson

#11. The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.

Roman Payne

#12. Just before I'd moved to New York, two historic events had occurred: The birth control pill had been invented, and the first Julia Child cookbook was published. As a result, everyone was having sex, and when the sex was over, you cooked something.

Nora Ephron

#13. When people do love our show [Heroes] and they put on the costumes, they know everything about our characters. And it is overwhelming at the same time. But you know, it's something that we're grateful and that's the reason why our show's continued to succeed.

Hayden Panettiere

#14. Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

George D. Prentice

#15. When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.

Josie Bissett

#16. I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.

Anthony Liccione

#17. I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!

Kristin Davis

#18. The language of understanding is not the words, but the silence. The language of love is not the promise, but the feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#19. I promise to make this quick as my wife just informed me several minutes ago that she's been in labor for the last five hours, and I really don't want her to give birth to our first child down there in the front row." ... "Tell him to hang on, honey, I'll be done in a minute.

Tina Reber

#20. Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

Joseph Altuzarra

#21. Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.

J.R. Rim

#22. It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.

George S. Patton

#23. (Cartoon caption I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

James Thurber

#24. With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

Cybill Shepherd

#25. Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one's life.
The first kiss, the birth of one's first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the last kiss.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#26. I love you, just a little, as little as a single drop of water that contains the entire essence of the ocean.

Malak El Halabi

#27. Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

Dave Chappelle

#28. The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

Maria Montessori

#29. It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

Jack Schmitt

#30. 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

#31. 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