Embryo Quotes

#1. That's the problem with you nearly immortal types," I said. "You couldn't spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

Jim Butcher

#2. So Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.

Robertson Davies

#3. From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

James Russell Lowell

#4. Without your pain you are nothing but a spiritual embryo.

Bryant McGill

#5. - Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!

George Gissing

#6. BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book.

Bill Hicks

#7. I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

Charles Krauthammer

#8. When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

Shinya Yamanaka

#9. Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Pearl S. Buck

#10. The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.

Thomas Huxley

#11. History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
...
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody's place in line.

Wislawa Szymborska

#12. The consciousness of an embryo is the universal consciousness. What we learn after birth is awareness and egocentric consciousness that we call the mind. Everyday we learn to conform to the beauty, tragedy, and adversity of this world and that forms our judgmental mind.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Children are responsible individuals in embryo. They have ultimate rights of their own and are not simply the playthings of their parents.

Milton Friedman

#14. I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. We don't mix. What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way.

Jennifer Niven

#15. Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. A seed, after all, is an embryo, a potential plant waiting for its moment to grow. It has what it needs to begin. But it can also put itself on pause. It can wait.

Robert Krulwich

#17. The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

Khalil Gibran

#18. Twenty thousand days and nights in one place, each layered and trapped and folded on top of the last, the creases in her hands, the aches between her vertebrae. Embryo, seed coat, endosperm: What is a seed if not the purest kind of memory, a link to every generation that has gone before it?

Anthony Doerr

#19. I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. The mountains here contained a sense of time, geologic time. They lay in embryo, a process unfolding, or a shriveled dying perhaps. They had the look of naked events.

Don DeLillo

#21. Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn't believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects.

Jennifer Niven

#22. Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#23. Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

Mitt Romney

#24. And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. Bitch going to rue the day she decided to unleash Phrixis on the world. (Thorn)
Rue the day? (Fang)
I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. Sometimes it shows. (Thorn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. Just as the embryo recapitulates in brief the evolution of the species, so did Suzanne recapitulate all the styles of her lovers.

W. Somerset Maugham

#27. As fire is covered by smoke, mirror by dust, and embryo by amnion, so is knowledge covered by desire.

Shweta Chandra

#28. To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't be destroyed, then implant one in your uterus and bring it to term. That's right, put your cervix where your mouth is.

Bill Maher

#29. How could you let him do this? (Shahara)
I know you're not going to pin this on me, Shay. I didn't raise the embryo. You did. It's what you get for teaching him things like honor, love, courage, and loyalty. If you'd left him a scared little snot-nose, he'd still be living in your basement. (Vik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#30. In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

Thor Heyerdahl

#32. The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

Derek Tangye

#33. You are not really a noun; you are a verb. You are not really a person; you are a soul in action. You are your embryo, you are your baby, you are your child, you are your adult, and you are your spirit when you pass through this body through this lifetime.

Catherine Carrigan

#34. The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

Marianne Williamson

#35. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Soren Kierkegaard

#36. We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.

Terence McKenna

#37. Legions of grotesques sweep under his hand; for has not nature too her grotesques - the rent rock, the distorting lights of evening on lonely roads, the unveiled structure of man in the embryo, or the skeleton?

Walter Pater

#38. Our real teacher has been and still is the embryo, who is, incidentally, the only teacher who is always right.

Viktor Hamburger

#39. Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time your were an embryo, and will keep on doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents it greatest strength.

James Trefil

#40. Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

Isaac Asimov

#41. Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.

Anthony Fauci

#42. Conception is a blessed event.
Fertilization is divine intervention.
The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter.
The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

Clifton Fadiman

#44. They handed over spider plants in terra-cotta, six-packs, books, bottles of wine. Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners.

Lauren Groff

#45. We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

Deepak Chopra

#46. Did dreams, he wondered, when they arrived, make a sound? The smallest kind, like the noise of an embryo being conceived, or a snowflake touching down?

Anthony Doerr

#47. I Preserve the nonviable embryo in formaldehyde for future study. Lord Maccon has been drinking my samples. When confronted, he admitted to be enjoying both the refreshing beverage and the 'crunchy pickled snack' as well. I was not pleased (Professor Lyall to Madame Lefoux)

Gail Carriger

#48. Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Deepak Chopra

#49. What it gives any human being a right to - to pick and choose which embryo - which fetus is more valuable than another. That's is not up to human beings.

Nadya Suleman

#50. People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

Michelle Rodriguez

#51. Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

Benjamin Franklin

#52. Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list
the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

Karl Marx

#53. I hate to say I'm a Cinderfella, but I've been watching the Globes since I was an embryo. I got a Facebook message from an elementary school friend who said, 'I remember you standing up and talking about attending the Golden Globes when we were little.'

Chris Colfer

#54. Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

Frederic Henry Hedge

#55. Since then, I have realized that my tree had been a child once too. The embryo that became my tree sat on the ground for years, caught between the danger of waiting too long and the danger of leaving the seed too early.

Hope Jahren

#56. scientists took a run-of-the-mill white rabbit embryo, implanted in its DNA a gene taken from a green fluorescent jellyfish,

Yuval Noah Harari

#57. In other countries, success has been achieved with embryo transfer in a different rhino species, thus that as a technique can be presupposed to be the most promising, However, consultations are ongoing amongst different reproductive technique experts on the way forward.

Paul George

#58. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).

Keith L. Moore

#59. Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.

Todd Akin

#60. The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

Arthur Koestler

#61. The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.

Isaac Newton

#62. I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.

Helen Reddy

#63. Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Marcus Aurelius

#64. My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

Groucho Marx

#65. It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.

Marcello Malpighi

#66. From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

Robert Casey

#67. It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.

Michael Sandel

#68. You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought. A worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own. Stop feeding what doesn't serve you.

Robin S. Sharma

#69. As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#70. On daughter Liza Minnelli: I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

Judy Garland

#71. Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#72. We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

Michael Steele

#73. Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Samuel Butler

#74. The difference between man and God is significant - but it is one of degree, not kind. It is the difference between an acorn and an oak tree, a rosebud and a rose, a son and a father ... Every man is a potential god in embryo.

Tad R. Callister

#75. She wished that these kinds of advances in reproductive medicine had been available to her. But then the embryo that had developed into Anna would've been discarded.

Lisa Genova

#76. It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

Bill Rancic

#77. I liked that sentence then and I like that sentence now but then I had no way of making any sense of it, I could only keep it in my mind's eye, where it rested and grew in the embryo that would become my imagination

Jamaica Kincaid

#78. Really. A worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own.

Robin S. Sharma

#79. All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

Lynn Margulis

#80. Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.

Rumi

#81. The embryo of my second novel, Bobby's Diner, came to life because of my husband's ex-wives. Let's just say, they inspired the writing.

Susan Wingate