Mary Calderone Quotes

#1. Abortion is the taking of a life.

Mary Calderone

#2. Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Mary Calderone

#3. We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

Mary Calderone

#4. Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

Mary Calderone

#5. Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#6. Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye --
mountains.

Kobayashi Issa

#7. The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

David Hockney

#8. The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.
Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.
The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

Waseem Latif

#9. The overhead bins - this is not a real passenger plane. We wanted it to look like a real passenger plane. But we're actually inside a very heavy-duty, industrial, like, cargo plane. And we built this set inside of it.

Trish Sie

#10. Imagined happiness is still happiness.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

Leon Golub

#12. Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect these inner values. But love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.

Dalai Lama

#13. I was blessed with good genetics, but my essence is very happy and warm and I don't take my job too seriously. I'm not saving lives here.

Miranda Kerr

#14. Seven major settings are particularly relevant to contemporary health education: schools, communities, worksites, health care settings, homes, the consumer marketplace, and the communications environment.

Karen Glanz

#15. I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Mary Calderone

#16. Paige, sweetheart, I love you with all my heart. Maybe it wasn't love at first sight, but then again, maybe it was. Maybe we made each other so mad because we knew, deep down, that we belong together. It just took our heads a little while to catch up with our hearts.

Kathleen Brooks

#17. I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart
I just want to help free people from the concert of sex as evil instead of a gift from God.

Mary Calderone

#18. Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive characteristics, but when they are combined they form a unique substance.

Joyce Brothers

#19. We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

Mary Calderone

#20. The juggling comes to an end now, but the struggling does not. I have Liesel Meminger in one hand, Max Vandenburg in the other. Soon I will clap them together. Just give me a few pages.

Markus Zusak

#21. Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Honore De Balzac