Betty Ford Quotes

Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

Betty Ford

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• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Mother
  • Baby
  • Sorry

• One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • Style
  • Things

• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Good
  • Duty
  • Him

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

  

  Hannah More
  • Duty
  • Discretion
  • Depart

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Gay
  • Baby

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Baby
  • Lucky

• Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

  

  Usher
  • Kids
  • Blessed
  • Look

• We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Blessing

• An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Baby
  • Ugly
  • Nasty

• One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Children
  • Change

• Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Health
  • Growth
  • Baby

• Summertime and the livin' is easy,Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.Oh yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma is good lookin',So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Good
  • High
  • Baby

• Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • See
  • Gymnastics

• George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Up
  • Law
  • Walking

• I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.

  

  Ian Gillan
  • Life
  • Stupid
  • Ambition

• Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Baby
  • Blessing
  • Duty