Quotes About Surrogate

#1. The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.

Alex Johnston

#2. Israel is the agent and surrogate of the United States and as such is treated entirely differently from every other country in the region. How can anyone expect Iran to accept that it is right for Israel to have nuclear weapons while itself being disallowed?

Martin Jacques

#3. The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

Elayne Boosler

#4. But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Thomas E. Mann

#5. The waiter was a kind of surrogate uncle or grandfather for the duration of the meal; he paradoxically made you feel at home by treating you with undisguised contempt.

Ted Merwin

#6. There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could.

Christopher Meloni

#7. For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

Mike McCurry

#8. UnSexed Virgin Dies En Route To Her Deflowering
'We were so close,' says surrogate

Elizabeth Brown

#9. But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

Cheryl Tiegs

#10. Unless Robbie and Chris wanted to her to be a surrogate mother, this would be her first and last pregnancy. She and morning sickness were not seeing eye-to-eye.

Koko Brown

#11. It's not just his understanding of me, although that's part of it. With a word, Tuesday can guide me to dozens of places. He can be my surrogate or a mirror to my heart.

Luis Carlos Montalvan

#12. Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.

Jay Cassidy

#13. The two of them were like oil and water. Her older sister was forever stuck in surrogate mommy role. But Viviana had never needed, nor wanted a replacement mother. Fate had seen fit to remove her biological mother, so she figured that was the way it was supposed to be.

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

#14. One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

Mahesh Bhatt

#15. Don't think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.

George Saunders

#16. Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn't normally get expressed. You know there's famous techniques of puppet therapists. Put this hand puppet on and tell me what the problem is.

Wayne White

#17. I think Rahm Emanuel is now defunct as any sort of a surrogate for Hillary Clinton.

Joy-Ann Reid

#18. While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a surrogate for a Higher Power.

J.P. Moreland

#19. Vidura could have been Yudhishthira's surrogate father.

Abhijit Basu

#20. There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil with derision and constant punishment. The aim is to bring out the best in the victim and to make him into a he-man or he-woman.

Philip French

#21. The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.

Lance Morrow

#22. I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

Fran Drescher

#23. Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

Stephen Sondheim

#24. Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

Peter Shaffer

#25. Humor is one of the elements of genius
admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#26. Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

Martin J. Whitman

#27. All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

Ian Anderson

#28. I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn't have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#29. We remove ourselves from the experience itself to a surrogate of the experience, which is whatever measure you take from the brain, be it the electroencephalogram or magnet encephalography or say functional magnetic resonance. So it's pretty tough to make those comparisons.

Antonio Damasio

#30. Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living.

Kevin Kelly

#31. The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

Abraham Maslow

#32. We inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family - a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on the support of the surrogate parents, sun and moon, to manage her terrestrial brood.

John Lamb Lash

#33. I should've known Gideon would spill. He's like a surrogate parent. Not like a stepfather, exactly - more like a godfather, or a sea horse who wants to stuff me into his pouch.

Kendare Blake

#34. Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to by blood but we've also got families that we acquire. And those too I think are pretty much part of my books.

Jackie French

#35. The HBS logo shone high above, a surrogate sun for the overcast day.

Jack Heath

#36. My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

Arabella Weir

#37. Doctors are idiots," ...."It's the surrogate that counts.

Amy Ewing

#38. Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly ...

Ada Louise Huxtable

#39. We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.

Nigel Lawson

#40. Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

Margaret Chan

#41. My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.

Jimmy Fallon

#42. I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

Brian J. White

#43. You don't have a mommy," Gunnar proclaimed as he walked around Breccan. "Ok, I want my surrogate," Breccan said as he sped up to catch the other men. Darius came forward to walk in step beside Wharick and whispered in a discreet tone, "Please, let me kill him.

Madison Thorne Grey

#44. Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

Denis Healey

#45. Washington had several surrogate sons during the Revolution, most notably the marquis de Lafayette, and he often referred to Hamilton as my boy.

Ron Chernow

#46. For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Anne Tyler

#47. We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

Justin Timberlake

#48. I am honored to be both an active surrogate and a member of the RNC's Hispanic advisory council. The national effort to work seamlessly with our state parties has improved our landscape and chances with Latino voters, not just in San Diego but across the country.

Rosario Marin

#49. And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are reunited, and you know, I will be your surrogate wife. Of course she doesn't use that word, but I will be the mother to my brothers, and I will be your primary love.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#50. I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

Alfred M. Gray

#51. Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

Thomas Frank

#52. The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.

Peter J. Gomes

#53. I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.

Haruki Murakami