You can think everything is dire, but you act as if there's possibility. I see children coming into the world as an… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Did I not give you this mini birth and death of sun everyday on the large screen of sky? And did I… — Jarem Sawatsky Copy Share Image
“When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone… — Charlotte Lamb Copy Share Image
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing… — Marc Racicot Copy Share Image
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in… — Brad Sherman Copy Share Image
Come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step… — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I was the oldest son, I had a younger sister named Lalita. When the Partition happened, my mother gave birth to a… — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
In giving birth, I knew that I would have to take a break after I had a baby; I just didn't know… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult,… — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs… — Rinko Kawauchi Copy Share Image
Take time to be aware that in the very midst of our busy preparations for the celebration of Christ's birth in ancient… — Edward Hays Copy Share Image
Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“I watched my friend Eleanor give birth," she said. "Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's not much more… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“No longer an innocent newborn, Elizabeth can tease, joke, and play make-believe because a gap has opened between what she knows to… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Women endure the labor of childbirth and men send themselves to war! But I gave birth to eight children and never once… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“Death is like giving birth. Birth can be painful. Sometimes women die from giving birth. However, when the baby is born, all… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
“I know now that the Spirit is trying to birth something in my life when I find myself craving silence and darkness,… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
My point of view actually on artificial intelligence, which ties into the nature for humans constantly looking into the reasons for why… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
My real mom died when I was born—hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to me, which has never been one of my… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image