Umbilical Cords Quotes

#1. Soon, we are as naked as the day we were born. Except, y'know, were not covered in blood and attached to our mothers by umbilical cords.

Fanny Merkin

#2. Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!

Elfriede Jelinek

#3. May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth?

William Dean Hamilton

#4. At the umbilical region we actually network with people. Picture that you are cutting those cords to everyone you know. It doesn't mean you don't love them; you are just cutting down on the negative energy pickup from people.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.

Silken Laumann

#6. And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

Gregory David Roberts

#7. I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

Matt Groening

#8. What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.

Dean Bakopoulos