A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a… — Preston Sturges Copy Share Image
Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
“Billy tried to imagine the birth of Cyril's wife's baby. It would happen in grim lights violently. A dripping thing trying to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and… — Irwin Stone Copy Share Image
And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams. This might mean… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the… — Linda Gordon Copy Share Image
Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
When you try to be true to the script, changes occur. A script is there to show us a certain direction. But… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My wish and hope, every year, is that people's life chances - their chances of having a happy, prosperous, healthy life for… — Michael Elliott Copy Share Image
From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
My family realized I was going to do birth work and then music; they were like, 'What's a doula? This is not… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
Giving birth to my daughter was certainly memorable, like a slap in the face. I arrived at the hospital in total denial,… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
“And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is… — Steve Tesich Copy Share Image
This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee,… — William Law Copy Share Image
In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
“The goal of spirituality is total and permanent freedom from psychological sorrows and sufferings. This is only possible when we will stop… — Harsha Yardi Copy Share Image
The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image