“Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.” IfsThinkingLittlesDoeBigsEyeBabyEvolutionTinyNosesLittle ThingsSurprisingMost AmazingBig Eyes Author:David Attenborough
“Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers? make its bed? smell its stench? stay at nights with it? take care of it when it cries? heal its rashes and sores? and on top of that care for my spouse, provide labor at my trade, take care of this and take care of that? do this and do that? and endure this and endure that? Why should I make such a prisoner of myself?” ShouldLooksReasonCareNightTurnsNaturalRocksCryBabyBedLaborTradeEndureSmellTake CareHealNosesPrisonerShould ISpouseAlasDiapers Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.” FeelsEyeBabySkinsEarsConfusionNosesBlooming Author:William James
“A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.” ChildrenSoulBodyRememberMotherBabyFleshNosesFolds Book:The Poisonwood Bible Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.” ShouldAgeYoungMotherAirBabyOne DayMachinesBreathsNosesDepartmentThis DayRemarksClerksKnittingSyntheticYarnYoung Mother Book:Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition Source: Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition