{"quotes":[{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["child","cries","cry","newborn","old","oldsoul","soul","souls","tears","tears-crying","tears-of-joy","tears-of-love","through","wise","wise-words"],"id":14119,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["everything-begins-small","newborn","small","wisdom","wise"],"id":17288,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.","author":"Kenneth Oppel","tags":["illness","newborn","parent","parenthood","parenting","parents","parents-and-children","sick","sickness"],"id":34841,"author_id":"Kenneth+Oppel"},{"text":"The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["art","artist","artistry","artists-life","aspiration","discriminate","discrimination","imagination","newborn"],"id":43856,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["age","aged","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","belief","beliefs","birth","burial","bury","child","children","cycle","dead","death","die","elder","elders","fallacies","fallacy","funeral","funerals","funny","gone-too-soon","hereafter","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","joke","jokes","kid","kids","life","life-after-death","life-and-death","misbelief","misbeliefs","misconception","misconceptions","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","offspring","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","philosopher","philosophers-cry","philosophic","philosophy","prepare","prepared","quotations","quotes","rest-in-peace","rip","satire","stoic","stoicism","stoics","surprise","surprising","the-elders","the-hereafter","tomb","tombstone","tombstones","unprepared","weep"],"id":54786,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.","author":"Mary Kay Blakely","tags":["me","newborn","years "],"id":78861,"author_id":"Mary+Kay+Blakely"},{"text":"[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["dead","magnus-bane","newborn","vampire","wish"],"id":104702,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"A newborn is murderous/but can't do anything about it.","author":"Kathleen Ossip","tags":["babies","murder","newborn","poetry"],"id":104963,"author_id":"Kathleen+Ossip"},{"text":"I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.","author":"Lindsay Price","tags":["parent","care","newborn "],"id":147263,"author_id":"Lindsay+Price"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}