Midwife Quotes

You should ask questions of your doctor or midwife ? there's no such thing as a silly question. - Dr. Laura Riley

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. - Johannes Kepler

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. - Stephen Spender

The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before... - Count Leo Tolstoy

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife. - Jonathan Schattke

My daughter, if she chooses to have a home birth or a midwife at her birth I want that to be an option for her. - Stacy Davis

Midwifery is an accepted practice in Wisconsin, and the governor thinks it's certainly a good idea that there be basic standards in place to protect the lives of children and expecting mothers. - Dan Leistikow