Quotes About Cutting The Umbilical Cord

#1. You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change.

Montel Williams

#2. I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

Bernard Cornwell

#3. It's a beautiful day for a night game.

Frankie Frisch

#4. Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Billy Graham

#5. I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

Kate Smith

#6. One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Simon Newcomb

#7. Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.

Shannon A. Thompson

#8. 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

#9. I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first ... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

LeRoy Neiman

#10. 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

#11. Success equals goals; all else is commentary.

Brian Tracy

#12. No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.

Leon Botstein

#13. My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

Marv Albert

#14. I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.

Donna Karan

#15. I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

Stephan Pastis

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

Lee Ezell

#17. I wasn't prepared for you, Elise. Holy hell ... not even close.

Lara Adrian

#18. Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.

Helene Cixous

#19. Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

Daniel Clowes