Cut The Cord Quotes

#1. My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

Joan Rivers

#2. I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.

Rodney Dangerfield

#3. It occurred to me, while sitting on the cold white toilet seat pretending to pee in order to avoid Bob, that I much preferred having the power over the man and deciding when to cut the cord, over being powerless and on the receiving end of the silent fade-away.

Meredith Schorr

#4. That accents of the hero's self-consciousness are really objectified and that the work itself observes a distance between the hero and the author. If the umbilical cord uniting the hero to his creator is not cut, then what we have is not a work of art but a personal document. Dostoevsky's

Mikhail Bakhtin

#5. Insights come through practice. When we work at something, we come to see it differently.

Eric Greitens

#6. The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There's no greater satisfaction.

Moshe Safdie

#7. The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

Barry Eisler

#8. It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

Heston Blumenthal

#9. Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.

Charles Bukowski

#10. We're told perfection doesn't exist, but that couldn't be true. Maybe perfection couldn't last, but it certainly could occur. It had to, because as I stood there staring at this beautifully flawed girl and realized she was mine, no moment had ever felt so perfect.

Jeannine Allison

#11. But birthdays are random ... Defining one's life by the day one was cut from an umbilical cord is completely arbitrary.

Neal Shusterman

#12. I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

Matt Holliday

#13. The truck stopped in front of the hospital. Everyone seemed relieved that they would tend to the bald man's injuries. But they did not. They were waiting. A woman who was also on the list was giving birth to a baby. As soon as the umbilical cord was cut, they would both be thrown into the truck.

Ruta Sepetys

#14. Our legacy is how we spend our time and who we spend it with.

Jim Stengel

#15. A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

Pat Conroy

#16. By walking, I found out where I was going.

Irving Layton

#17. Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I've fucked you, you're likely with child. It's not every man who has the honor of raising a king's bastard. She looked at him stupidly, so he left her there.

George R R Martin

#18. You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful ... Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!

Eric Thomas

#19. In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Irwin Shaw

#20. Ignoring somebody's mistakes in life from a powerful position makes you a saint, but the same act (whose intention
does not matter), if carried out from a weak position, will make you a coward or helpless.

Ravindra Shukla

#21. Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.

John Green

#22. Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

Lee Ezell

#23. Suffering shows us what we are attached to - perhaps the umbilical cord between Mother and me has never been cut. Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

Terry Tempest Williams

#24. They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder.

Henry Miller

#25. With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

Mekhi Phifer

#26. If we neglect Scripture in order to read only other books, we not only cut ourselves from the divine umbilical cord that feeds our souls, we also cut ourselves from the truth that makes it possible for us to benefit from the truth, goodness, and beauty in the books that we read.

Tony Reinke

#27. Boys belong to their mothers. Cord cut decades ago, but they'll always share the warm, dark swim.

Lauren Groff

#28. Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids.

Gordon Brown