Natal Quotes

• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  C. Everett Koop

  Mean, Target Audience, Ordinary

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• The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, Crops, Enormous

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• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Christmas, Education

  A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

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• A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Karma, Children, Astrology

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• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Positive, Christmas

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• There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.

  Gordon J. Humphrey

  Law, Issues, Abortion

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• I lost everything in the post-natal depression.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Lost Everything, Holiday Traditions

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, Fawcett

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• I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessarily warm to me. But now I have been through childbirth, post-natal depression and struggled with my weight, women seem to relate to me a lot more.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Thinking, Weight, Mags

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• I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

  Jennifer Ellison

  People, Want, Stigma

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• Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Mother, Men, Fire

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• It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Stars, Thinking, Heaven

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• We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Mother, Children, Hypocrite

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• It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

  Gail Porter

  Years, Half, Mental Illness

  "Q: Aren't you too brainy to be a TV presenter? A: Too brainy? That's why all my hair fell out" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.

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• And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Butterfly, Tombs

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.255

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• O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character.
  [Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Stars, Character, Fate

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• Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

  Caroline Norton

  Children, Practice, Abortion

  "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.

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• The natal chart is like a seed and progressions are the unfolding in time of that into the plant it is to become. Transits, are like a daily weather report. In political astrology, these three factors have to be taken into account!

  Alice O. Howell

  Taken, Astrology, Weather

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• To the astrologer, or at least to what I call the analytical astrologer, the natal chart virtually represents a living map to the kingdom of heaven which lies within.

  Alice O. Howell

  Lying, Heaven, Maps

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• Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Real, Mean

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• A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future result. But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men of intuitive wisdom - These are few.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Karma, Children, Men

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• Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

  John le Carre

  Baby, Book, Home

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• Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Father, Years, Pages

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• I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

  Brooke Shields

  Smile, Beautiful, Girl

  "Brooke Shields: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.

  Dennis Lehane

  Past, Order, Waking

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.

  Mandy Moore

  Organization, Phones, People

  "U.S. Foreign Health Investments Improve Lives Abroad — And Here at Home" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

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