Midwife Quotes
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
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.
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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.
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.
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?
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
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"
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.
No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.
The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
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.
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.
The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.
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.
A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!
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.
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.
When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother. How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother and as a parent.Be gentle. Be kind. Listen.
My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font water, and grips its jaws with the other lest the goes to litigation about it. Says O'LiamRoe
What's it like here?There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones.
