Pregnancy Infant Loss Remembrance Day Quotes

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear ~ William Shakespeare

Weight loss after pregnancy is safe but requires attention and guidelines ~ Debbie Meyer

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit. ~ Deborah Jowitt

When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him. ~ Peter Singer

Something out of nothing, she thought. The perfect parallel to pregnancy. ~ Monica Starkman

Women often endure infertility, pregnancy, infant loss, miscarriages, and stillbirths in isolation, because while sadness is a socially palatable response to these often life-altering events, rage, frustration, jealousy, and guilt are not. ~ Soraya Chemaly

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. ~ Schuyler Colfax

Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression. ~ Faye Wattleton

Embrace the pain ~ Jude Gibbs

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. ~ Laurence Binyon

We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches. ~ Anna Akhmatova

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! ~ Lucy Larcom

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. ~ Felicity Huffman

It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Today is a day of remembrance that is heavy on my heart. ~ Vickie Guerrero

Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards. ~ Sam Harris

My name is Sherman Alexie and I was born from loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss.

And loss. ~ Sherman Alexie

Pregnancy is a natural event, but you lessen the chances conception can occur with an unnatural diet. ~ Nancy S. Mure

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields. ~ John McCrae

What keeps you from ... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance. ~ Edward Hirsch

So make remembrance of Me, and I will make remembrance of you. And show thanks to Me, and do not be ungrateful. ~ Anonymous

Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit. ~ Rumi

Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2 ~ MaryAnne Tebedo

As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded with
God for one more day, one more week, one more month with her. ~ Ariana Carruth

Eddie turned away.
"Because I saved you, as tough as those years were for you, as bad as it was with your hand, you got to grow up, too. And because you got to grow up..."
When he turned back, Annie froze. Eddie was holding a baby boy, with a small blue cap on his head.
"Laurence?" Annie whispered.
Eddie stepped forward and placed her son in her trembling arms. Instantly, Annie was whole again, her body complete. She cradled the infant against her chest, a motherly cradle that filled her with the purest feeling. She smiled and wept and she could not stop weeping.
"My baby," she gushed. "Oh, my baby, my baby... ~ Mitch Albom

Once again standing on past route. ~ Remembrance

A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei). ~ Laozi

...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream. ~ Criss Jami

Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again. ~ Giorgio Agamben

The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp
with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain. ~ James Lane Allen

All knowledge is but remembrance. ~ Plato

Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant. ~ Camille Paglia

You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you ~ Cindy Margolis

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. ~ Tammy Baldwin

Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. ~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone. ~ William Shakespeare

Nothing is really lost in the World; everything is preserved. ~ Joan Ambu

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards. ~ Tori Spelling

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life. ~ Paul Bettany

When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes. ~ Ronald Reagan

With miscarriage or infant loss, hopes and dreams are shattered before they can even begin. ~ Melissa L Eshleman

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth. ~ Ramana Maharshi

Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin. ~ Maggie Scarf

Prior to Roe , ... whether one could obtain a legal abortion in the face of an unwanted pregnancy was a crap shoot. For 30 years now, it's been a constitutionally guaranteed right ~ David Garrow

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. ~ Honore De Balzac

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings. ~ Susie Orbach

Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births. ~ Joe Lieberman

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance. ~ Victor Hugo

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin. ~ Thomas Paine

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past. ~ Ovid

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ~ Carl Sandburg

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. ~ Euripides

I know they don't recommend Ibuprofen during pregnancy, but you needed something fast for the hangovers. ~ Chelsea Handler

I don't even have a clue as to where to find a pregnancy test. I'm looking at all the aisles ... they don't have one that says 'oops. ~ Gabriel Iglesias

In early pregnancy her ability to tolerate heat stress improves by about 30 percent and in late pregnancy by at least 70 percent. Indeed, when a woman exercises at 65 percent of her maximum capacity in late pregnancy, her peak core temperature during exercise does not even get up to the level it was at rest before she became pregnant. ~ James F. Clapp III

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.' ~ Dawn Johnsen

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild;
He has devoured the infant child.
The infant child is not aware
It has been eaten by a bear."
"Infant Innocence ~ A.E. Housman

Grace and remembrance be to you both. ~ William Shakespeare

Pregnancy sucks the nightlife out of you. ~ Laurie Perez

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child. ~ Mallory Ortberg

Diet plays in my opinion an important role during pregnancy ~ David Downing

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. ~ Marcel Proust

Birth is the epicenter of women's power ~ Ani DiFranco

A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom
I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm supposed to be doing something else
but I also can't last a day without seeing them. Visiting with them when I am alone in the house. ~ Chris Bohjalian

Every day we must turn again to God's acts of salvation, so that we can again move forward ... . Faith and obedience live on remembrance and repetition. Remembrance becomes the power of the present because of the living God who once acted for me and who reminds me of that today. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The infant is ten and he stays, ~ William Goldman

I still couldn't imagine that she was really, truly pregnant; maybe this was an hysterical pregnancy. But Sarah was never hysterical. Enthusiastic, yes, ironic on occasion. I couldn't imagine a doctor saying, No, it's just an ironic pregnancy. ~ James Lileks

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant. ~ Harriet Martineau

Neurology's favourite word is 'deficit', denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties). ~ Oliver Sacks

Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything. ~ Gautama Buddha

As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis. ~ Gwynne Dyer

The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below ~ John McCrae

The day of birth is a sacred day. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Spend this in remembrance of me. ~ Margaret Atwood

Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil's back, by our willful disobedience of God's law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. ~ Lionel Blue

We must not forget what it means to be in love with another human being, Lucjan had said. For this, once lost, can no longer be imagined. ~ Anne Michaels

I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant? ~ Kathryn Stockett

We need to support these women who are in crisis pregnancy situations. ~ Kathy Ireland

Denying women the right to end a pregnancy is the flip side of punishing women for conduct during pregnancy, and even if not punishing, monitoring. In the spring of 2014 a law was proposed in the Kansas state legislature that would require doctors to report every miscarriage, no matter how early in pregnancy. ~ Katha Pollitt

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. ~ Erica Jong

I think pregnancy is a huge responsibility. ~ Chelsea Handler

The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer ~ John Sculley

Our masters say that real arts never die. Real arts are about remembrance. ~ Yiyun Li

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. ~ Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar. ~ Doris Lessing

Undo it, take it back, make every day the previous one until I am returned to the day before the one that made you gone. Or set me on an airplane traveling west, crossing the date line again and again, losing this day, then that, until the day of loss still lies ahead, and you are here instead of sorrow. ~ Nessa Rapoport

Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears. ~ Saint John Chrysostom

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery. ~ Dante Alighieri

Sweet. remembrance of the Master is the sum total, of all practices. ~ Kirpal Singh

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid ~ Dave Barry

I knew that sunny citrus helped put things in focus, sharpened the memory, just like a squeeze of lemon juice could sharpen and clarify the taste of sweet fruit. I was also well aware that too much citrus could indicate a corrosive anger. My first wedding at Rainbow Cake had taught me that. But this was a gentle, subdued citrus, like the taste of a Meyer lemon.
Spice usually indicated grief, a loss that lingered for a long time, just like the pungent flavor of the spice itself, whether it was nutmeg or allspice or star anise. The more pronounced the flavor, the more recent the loss and the stronger the emotion. So there was some kind of loss or remembrance involved here. Yet there was also a comfort in the remembering, knowing that people had gone before you. That they waited for you on the other side. ~ Judith Fertig

A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far. ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of Thanks. Among all the challenges that we face as people with hearing loss there are certainly brighter moments in every day – moments that deserve to be recorded in our Gratitude Journal. ~ Monique Hammond

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith