Famous quotes containing the words newborn child, newborn and/or child:
“Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?”
—Dorothy L. Nolte (20th century)
“Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a crise ... of hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyond ... and became entered by a rather sublime feeling.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“I kiss my wailing child and press it to my breast,
And hear the narrow graves calling my child and me.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)