Call the Midwife tv series quotes
Sister Monica Joan: “Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Jenny : “Fate might shake us, but our roots run deep. And we have love to water them.”
“The longest nights are seldom seen approaching. Storms may not be heard until they break. Like life itself, challenges and change are there to be confronted and we must weather them, alone or together.”
Cynthia Miller: “You have to be brave to be in love, don’t you? I mean, knowing that your heart may get broken, some point along the way.”
Mature Jenny: “I used to think that night was a time for women. All day, the docks were raucous with the lives of men. Lightermen and stevedores, dockers and pilots, the sailors and the drivers of the trains. In the smallest hours, only the river’s voice was heard. Only women were awake. Men slept. Mostly.”
Jenny : “Invisible wounds are the hardest to heal, for their closure depends upon the love of others. On patience, understanding, and the tender gift of time.”
Mature Jenny: “I had begun to see what love could do. Love brought life into the world and women to their knees. Love had the power to break hearts and to save. Love was, like midwifery, the very stuff of life and I was learning how to fly with it. Through all the streets, like the river to the sea.”
Sister Monica Joan : “I do not believe in weeds. A weed is simply a flower that someone decides is in the wrong place.”
Mature Jenny: “I must have been mad. I could have been an air hostess. I could have been a model. I could have moved to Paris or been a concert pianist. I could have seen the world, been brave, followed my heart. But I didn’t. I side-stepped love and set off for the East End of London, because I thought it would be easier. Madness was the only explanation.”
“Home is not simply a mark upon a map any more than a river’s just water. It is the place at the centre of the compass from which every arrow radiates and where the heart is fixed. It is a force that forever draws
us back or lures us on. For where the home is, there lies hope.And a future waits. And everything is possible.”
“We don’t need an extra pair of hands, we need an octopus”
Sister Monica Joan : “My books have been in boxes for far too long. If they’re not set straight, their contents will jumble and become deranged.”
Sister Winifred: “This is the dark before the dawn. But there is always a dawn.”
“Sometimes in life, one has to take a chance. Without risk, there’s no possibility. Without potential loss, no prize. The Roberts’ baby defied all odds…and thrived, and was cherished…always. Jane, too, found acceptance in Nonnatus House. And she found more – she found love. The name of the goldfish she won at the fair provided proof of that.”
Jenny : “Sometimes the heart desires very simple things. The heart holds within it all that is most precious, all that we must protect. But it is also braver and bolder, more resilient than we realize. If we wound it, it will heal. And if it breaks, it learns to beat again.”
“Some might call it confidence, others name it faith, but if it makes us brave the label doesn’t matter for it’s the thing that frees us to embrace life itself.”
“If you’re suggesting that a few deep breaths and not thinking about what’s for dinner is all there is to labour, you’re leading your patients up the fairy way”
Sister Julienne : “Every woman alive is the sum of all she ever did and felt and was.”
“If you were to go any slower you’d grow moss.”
“Love cannot ease every anguish in the world but tenderly applied, it can transfigure fortunes, light up faces. Turn the tide. Molly’s children went to live with their grandmother, who bought an immaculate pram on hire purchase, investing in the future, whilst turning back the clock. Her spotless house became a happy home again, centred on a baby boy and a little girl. There was pain, but she could bear it. For her journey had come full circle.They were her second chance at love. And she was theirs.”
Jenny : “The world is full of love that goes unspoken. It doesn’t mean that it is felt less deeply or that separation leaves a cleaner wound. Its beauty… and its pain are in its silence.”
“Is that the fastest you can move or is there a switch for emergency mode?”
Sister Julienne : “I have come to the conclusion that there are only two reasons for ever doing anything. One is love, the other is fear.”
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