$13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by medicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

— Frank A. Oski

5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.

— Nilesh jain

A bed is a place where so much of life is played out - births and deaths and passions and dreaming - all the most fundamental moments of our fragile human existence.

— Tracy Rees

A birthdate is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.

— Amit Kalantri

A certain bygone philosophy-which certainly must have quite forgotten all about the real child-used to speak of the child's nature as a tabula rasa, or 'blank page,' upon which experience and training might write what they pleased. As a matter of fact, the child's nature at birth, like that of a calf or a chick, is pretty well scribbled over by the experience of its ancestors. It is far from being blank, for as soon as the little organism comes into the world, it begins to do certain things and do them with much zeal and determination, as every one knows who knows real children.

— Edward O. Sisson

A child is a gift from God.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A child is reliving millions of years of Evolution from a single cell to a XXI Century Human. This is the most amazing miracle I've ever encountered, and I am truly grateful to the Nature for letting me perform it - for letting me create a new life called Emily.

— Sophia Newtown

A child of God, special possession.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A child's name is his portal to the world.

— George Hagen

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

— Thomas Carlyle