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1 " I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon. "
― Wernher von Braun
2 " Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second. "
― Emma Straub , The Vacationers
3 " To speak of ‘trying again’ while her ghost was still in the room was an insult to both the child gone before and the child that might come after. The child before might be merely a precursor, a practice run, a whole person deemed sufficiently remembered and loved; while the child after might be a bandaid child, a second child, a replacement child. Without time taken to wait – not until the first child was forgotten but until the hideous burning fire of grief had dulled – neither child could be fully a person, but just a function of the other. "
4 " The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed. "
― Roman Payne
5 " In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. "
