New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
The era I love most is the Federal period, just after the Revolution and the formation of the United States. The birth… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“I'm quickly approaching the moment of discovery: of myself by myself, which was something I knew all along and yet didn't know;… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Our touchstones of slavery are 'Song of the South,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Birth of a Nation.' It's hard to… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract… — Lev Vygotsky Copy Share Image
We couldn't celebrate the birth of our twins, as the moment they were born, we found out within 15 minutes that one… — Kashmira Shah Copy Share Image
I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all.… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
“The main goal of Bellydance for birth within the framework of actual labour is to fully allow the labouring woman to help… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose… — Oscar Pistorius Copy Share Image
I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
“An appalling double tragedy overshadowed the joy that should have welcomed Alice Lee Roosevelt's entrance to the world on February 12, 1884.… — Stacy A. Cordery Copy Share Image
A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“of fathers, children have been born unto thee.” For the Lord, having been born “the First-begotten of the dead,” and receiving into… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas -… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The relic from before birth Enters one's heart one day. Be as careful as if you were holding a full vessel, Be… — Sun Bu'er Copy Share Image
Abortion destroys self-worth and dignity. I bought into the idea that abortion was simply a matter of choice. I used abortion as… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The availability of roles for deaf actors has always been very limited. After 'Switched at Birth' began including deaf actors, a ripple… — Sean Berdy Copy Share Image
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the… — Denton Welch Copy Share Image
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored!… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice… — Christian de Duve Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship? A lot… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“This is how it always is. You have to make these huge decision on behalf of your kid, this tiny human whose… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
For most of his life, Donald Trump has described himself as very pro- choice and as a supporter of partial birth abortion.… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Copy Share Image
