Swaddling Quotes

#1. The Bible became a jewel in the hands of the Reformers not because it was a "handbook for happy living" or a "primer of metaphysics about God," but because in it the Christian possessed the "the swaddling clothes in which Christ lies."85

Matthew Barrett

#2. The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

Honore De Balzac

#3. nurse woke me at 4:30 a.m. on November 1, 1962, to announce the messiah had been wrapped in swaddling and was christened Anthony Kiedis.

Blackie Dammett

#4. Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control,
constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave.
The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed
down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our
institutions.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving against my swaddling bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.

William Blake

#6. I actually enjoyed changing diapers and I enjoyed swaddling. I don't mind being swaddled either, on occasion.

Jason Bateman

#7. Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'

Martin Luther

#8. In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Ben Shapiro

#9. If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus ... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit.

Saint John Chrysostom

#10. Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

Victor Hugo

#11. My age fallen away like white swaddling
Floats in the middle distance, becomes
An inhabited cloud.

Philip Larkin

#12. 6And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 7And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

Anonymous

#13. And she brought forth her firstborn son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7

Anonymous

#14. When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.

Hari Kunzru

#15. And I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons.

Steven Herrick

#16. It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.

Al Yankovic

#18. Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

Haruki Murakami

#19. Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to pare compare clothing.

George Carlin

#20. I'll be explaining that Britain will be leaving the European Union, but I want that process to be as constructive as possible. And I hope the outcome can be as constructive as possible because of course while we're leaving the European Union, we mustn't be turning our backs on Europe.

David Cameron

#21. I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots

Thom Yorke

#22. Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.

Nadine Velazquez

#23. Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

Pharrell Williams

#24. At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

Simon Rich

#25. The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.

Rita Ora

#26. Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

Gary Miller

#27. What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

Ayn Rand