Wet Nurse Quotes

#1. My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

Susan Rice

#2. The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

Francois Rabelais

#3. Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

Henry B. Eyring

#4. Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

Kate Williams

#5. The landing stage stood on its high crooked stilts with only one person watching the boat disappear round the bend of the river - a girl of twelve called Ada, the wet-nurse's eldest child. As

Jane Gardam

#6. When I was a boy," Tyrion replied, "my wet nurse told me that one day, if men were good, the gods would give the world a summer without ending. Perhaps we've been better than we thought, and the Great Summer is finally at hand." He grinned. The

George R R Martin

#7. The band broke into a cover of "Hungry Like the Wolf." I smiled up at mine. He was sexy even in soaking wet blue jeans. "Dance with me.

Lisa Kessler

#8. Turn your life into a field of power and energy to draw from.

Frederick Lenz

#9. No! Aguaje is for girls. If a man eats to much of it, he starts to look like a woman.

That is the most unscientific thing I've ever heard.

Then you haven't met my cousin Jacari. Too much aguaje. Now the mothers use him as wet nurse.

Jessica Khoury

#10. I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

Sky Ferreira

#11. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

Kate Morton

#12. It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

Harriet Martineau

#13. One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#14. Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

David Abrahamsen

#15. Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

Anthony Trollope

#16. Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Josh Billings

#17. I pressed my lips together, trying to find a safe place to focus my attention. He filled the entire shower stall, his skin clean and wet, every part of him chiseled. His gym shorts clung to a package I had no business noticing.

Lisa Kessler

#18. As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him.

Joseph Gies

#19. The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"
Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#20. When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

Tug McGraw

#21. Barack Obama is the worst President in history.

Ben Quayle

#22. In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.

E.B. White