Quotes About Gestation

#1. God makes us ask ourselves questions most often when He intends to resolve them. He gives us needs that He alone can satisfy, and awakens capacities that He means to fulfill. Any perplexity is liable to be a spiritual gestation, leading to a new birth and a mystical regeneration.

Thomas Merton

#2. There is a necessary gestation period during which a writer should protect his work, because the minute he sends it out, or joins a writing group, or enrolls in an MFA program, he engages the part of himself that is focused on the result more than the work. For

Betsy Lerner

#3. In 2008, there were 1,210,000 legal abortions in the USA representing 22 per cent of all pregnancies. About 25 per cent of these took place prior to nine weeks' gestation, while 5.3 per cent took place after the sixteenth week.

Charlotte Vardy

#4. After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow.

Salman Rushdie

#5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

Richard Ellmann

#6. I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

Kieran Bew

#7. She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow.

Louise Erdrich

#8. when she made the most unnecessary statement I had ever heard. "Well, you're still under twelve weeks gestation, so you could still have a miscarriage. Oh, but don't worry- it's just a little clump of cells right now." I wondered if she was thinking that I wanted to have a miscarriage.

E. McNew

#9. I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

Wole Soyinka

#10. I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Roland Joffe

#11. Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

Amy Sedaris

#12. The natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly and with time to other insights ... Everything is a gestation and then bringing forth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

John Amaechi

#14. Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that this work of Nietzsche's played much role in the gestation of the novella.

Philip Kitcher

#15. Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer - and non-disturbance.

Jane Hirshfield

#16. McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#17. If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Kevin O'Leary

#18. I think I could learn a little patience with myself if I took a view of myself that included concepts like dormancy (instead of laziness), seed planting (instead of just scattered), gestation (instead of doing-something-right-this-second).

Julia Cameron

#19. Everything is gestation and then birthing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#20. Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

Scott Simon

#21. What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods
even extended ones
of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

Alexi Murdoch

#22. Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.

Nick Mason

#23. There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

Jonas Salk

#24. Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.

Willard Gaylin

#25. In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

Jacques Barzun

#26. I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.

Wole Soyinka

#27. I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

Oprah Winfrey

#28. Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

Manuel Gonzalez Flores

#29. A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#30. Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman - a high-attention and high-priority stage of a pregnancy - a time that requires utmost care in bringing one life safely to the world without losing the other.

Pawan Mishra

#31. Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana