Habits Quote by Upton Sinclair

“I had long since wished that they would have been born with a dictionary sized how-to guide in my placenta. It would have been…

— Anna Aquino

“Probing the womb of the future is bad for the child.”

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“And in the man too there is motherhood, it seems to me, physical and mental; his engendering is also a kind of birthing, and…

— Rilke Letters to a Young Poet

“His main example was to read like a child--very curiously and carefully ... But with the full intellectual sophistication of a brilliant adult.”

— Daniel Menaker

“Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university…

— Dale Carnegie

This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood,”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men... it had…

— George Eliot

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to child bearing,”

— Anonymous

“He liked doing research in the library. He liked feeling of accumulating knowledge in his brain. It was something he had enjoyed ever since…

— Haruki Murakami

“It was ‘discovered’ in the 1940s that babies in orphanages who received all their supposed nutritional requirements, did not grow because they were not…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing,…

— Jane Hersey