Quotes for All
Madame Lefoux acted as midwife. In her scientific way, she was unexpectedly adept at the job. When the infant finally appeared, she held it up for Alexia to see, rather proudly, as though she’d done all the hard work herself. ‘Goodness,’ said an exhausted Lady Maccon, ‘are babies customarily that repulsive looking? Gail Carriger
I’m in training to become a midwife. I’m almost there and before I know it I’ll be able to open my own practice, if that’s what I desire. Erykah Badu
The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus – not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance. Edward Mills Purcell
The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being. Friedrich Nietzsche
The midwife of history is violence. Franz Joseph I of Austria
Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? — Flora Thompson
I still deliver like a midwife Drake
There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness … Read more
the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her … Read more
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. David Ogilvy