Zygote Quotes

#1. Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.

Katha Pollitt

#2. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.

Keith L. Moore

#3. Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us.

Donald Johanson

#4. A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. I could see it so clearly, the zygote- shiny and bulbous, filled with the electric memory of being two but now damned with the eternal loneliness of being just one. The sorrow that never goes away.

Miranda July

#6. To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby ...

Conrad Williams

#7. I might have been your zygote. Your fetus. Maybe even your off-spring. But I have never been your son. You have no idea what it means to be a real mother. You think nine months of discomfort and eight hours of labor gives you the right to call yourself 'Mom'? Well, bitch, you're delusional.

Ellen Hopkins

#8. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).

Keith L. Moore

#9. They'd done plenty of wild things in their time together, but Reeve's favorite and Sutton's too was when he asked her to beg for it. She always did, and he always made sure she was rewarded.

Lauren Blakely

#10. Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

Gilbert Highet

#11. The gut is the seat of all feeling.

Suzy Kassem

#12. The only good thing, is that the cold wakes her up and she doesn't have to struggle to stay conscious. The bad thing, is that the numbness is fading away now, and her whole body is racked with pain.

Amy Lunderman

#13. Sometimes it feels like there aren't enough hours in a day to get everything done.

Michael Greger

#14. A person who seeks not only to listen but to understand as well is rare - a treasure. And rare treasures are priceless.

Anonymous

#15. The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

Quintilian

#16. Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.

M.F. Moonzajer

#17. Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#18. My grandpa once told me never to provoke an injured bear, especially one nursing its wounds, but sometimes the bear needs to be poked.

Katie McGarry

#19. Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.

Ralph Marston

#20. My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

Bonnie Raitt

#21. True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

David O. McKay

#22. The storm laid bare an unmistakable truth. More and more Christians have decided that the only way to reconquer America is through service. The faith no longer travels by the word. It moves by the deed.

Philip Yancey

#23. I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

Anne Hathaway