Top 98 Midwife Quotes & Sayings

I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

I still deliver like a midwife

My dad's an English teacher and my mum's a midwife. Then my mum's side of the family are all crazy creative.

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

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.

You have that first joy of finding work, and then to become part of a show like 'Call the Midwife' - which I have watched religiously with my mum since it started -is doubly brilliant.

I'm obsessed with that show 'Call The Midwife'. Although I had to take a break at a certain point in my pregnancy because every episode is about having babies.

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

I was always interested in becoming a midwife. Then, at my own birth, I didn't get the support I'd hoped for, and that changed everything. That's why I became a doula. There's such a need.

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

In a nutshell, I am a mom, a grandma, and a midwife.

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.

Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else"

Adversity is the midwife of genius

The midwife of history is violence.

I'm obsessed with 'Call The Midwife.'

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

As a midwife, I am immersed in Oxytocin day and night.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

I truly believe being a midwife is the greatest job for a feminist. It's women helping women, believing in them at a time when they're thinking, 'Am I ever going to get through this?'

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman.

My mother was a midwife and a herbalist, so we would go on these long walks, looking for yarrow or rosehips or whatever she needed to make her tinctures.

It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.

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

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature.

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

What I've learnt is that being a midwife is not a job about cute babies. And as a maternity care assistant there's a lot of cleaning involved. It's a vocation.

There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.

My own father flipped out on me when I told him we decided to ditch our doctor and go with a midwife instead.

How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at the time, it set my feet on a path that eventually led me to become a childbirth author and a midwife.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

My wife is a midwife, and there's only so many states where you can do that. Texas is a place where she can work.

The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.

I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

After 'Question Time,' I find my mind is racing. So I try to watch something that's a million miles away from all that, like 'Poldark' or 'Call the Midwife' or 'Derry Girls.'

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

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters

I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.