Birth Quote by Margaret Westhaven Download Open image ““I believe that books must go through a fairly slow birthing process...”” — Margaret Westhaven ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Birth Book Books
“The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections we wouldn’t… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I feel that I have so many books yet to read and so little time to do so” — MBarreto Condado Copy Share Image
“It might not be so unpleasant, you know, to do me one or two favours in exchange for becoming a famous authoress.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“Was tomorrow going to see the end of her long-guarded virginity?” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“The real world isn't like one of those lending library novels that you ladies read--and write--so avidly.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“It's a simple domestic tale, about a girl who has problems getting married, and how she deals with her relations and friends. Miss Dalrymple… — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“...it would seem that whoever did write this book knows you very well. You appear in it, sir. As...as the hero.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“I recall how I suspected at the time that my young friend was indulging in her first bout of calf love.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“...Great-Uncle Powell, an archaeologist, had spent most of his time digging about in foreign parts.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“...ever since she had read the girl's novel, a piece of artistry that struck her as wish-fulfilment at its most blatant...” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“I swear, Papa, I'd give my virtue if it would get my novels published,' she exclaimed in vexation. 'I'm certain we've tried everything else.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“Really, the insufferable conceit of the man. How dared he have the unutterable gall to know how her knees weakened at the sight of… — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“What do you say to furthering our cousinly relationship by a drive in the Park this afternoon?” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for… — Roxanne Shante Copy Share Image
