“What can you say about a guy who lets himself be saddled with a baby when he's thirty-five and losing his hair? Love? Forget about that till you're past seventy, and by then the parts will have stopped working anyway.” PastGuyForgetFiveHairBabyLosingThirtySeventies Author:Gunter Grass
“Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational opportunities has altered maternal expectations. This renders baby-care requirements discordant with ambition for many mothers, and produces heartfelt dilemmas for others.” NeedsLittlesCarePastMotherOpportunityChangedProduceBabyAmbitionExpectationsFemaleDecadesRequirementsDilemmaAlteredOver The PastHeartfelt Author:Joan Raphael-Leff
“Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, 'Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.'” MayHas BeensPastWifeBabyBirthLaborDoctorsDuesSpeedPregnantKateDue DatePregnant Wife Author:Conan O'Brien
“There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom from the suffering of past generations of parents. Does the book you're reading contradict itself repeatedly, require you to override all your parental instincts, or send you into a panic over your own inadequacy? If so, burn it.” IfsMayDoeBookPastSufferingReadingParentAnswersGenerationsBabyOffersInstinctOver YouPanicParentalInadequacyPast Generations Author:Libby Copeland
“For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.” NeedsYearsWarLastsPastPoliticalFantasyPathRightsGenerationsBabyApproachCivil RightsRighteousnessVietnamExitCrusadesRampBaby Boom Author:Joe Klein
“I've never told anyone this, in an effort to run from my past and disguise it, I got rid of all of the scrapbooks my mother kept going back to when I was a baby. Truly. So that's why whenever talk show hosts or a producer asks for these pictures, there are barely any. My sister had a few, but that's it, and this was before digital. I've never told anyone that, but that's the truth.” ShowsRunningPastMotherAsksEffortBabyProducersDigitalHostMy SisterDisguiseMy PastTalk Shows Author:Tim Gunn
“As soon as you lay down, that's when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. 'Goodnight, baby.' 'Do you think we were together in a past life?' 'Yeah, and I died of sleep deprivation. Go to bed.' 'Don't you feel like we're soul...'” ThinkingFeelsSoulHumorFunnyTogetherPastSleepBabyBedMouthsDiedYeahLaysComing OutBizarreDeprivationPast LifeSleep Deprivation Author:Adam Ferrara
“As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.” FeelsTryingPastExistenceBabyBasketballRecallsPalmsAttempting Book:Less Than One: Selected Essays Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays
“On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mild curiosity by those in their 50s, with trepidation by those in their 40s, with fear and loathing by those in their 30s, and with complete indifference by anyone younger. An icon to baby boomers, who will never concede that when something is over, it is really over (Clapton, McCartney, Santana, the 1960s), Allen has not made a truly memorable film since Bullets On Broadway back in 1994.” MadeAgePastFilmSidesBabyCuriosityIndifferenceBlissMemorableOver ItBulletsBroadway1960sIconsArrivalsLoathingWoodyBoomersFear And LoathingBaby BoomerTrepidationSantanaWoody Allen Movie Author:Joe Queenan
“Well my wife and I just had a baby ourselves and it makes it harder to be on the road. It isn't for everybody and it can burn people out, and that's what's happened in the past. We've just kept the ship running y'know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything's alright.” PeopleKnowsWellsMeanLongRunningPastWifeHappenedBabyHarderMy WifeShipsEngineersAlright Author:Al Barr
“We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.” WayHas BeensArtStillsHardAgePastDiesSuccessfulAliveCenturyBabyLessonsForgottenStayingStaying AliveArt Of LivingHard WayBoomersBaby BoomerLearning The Hard Way Author:Terry Pratchett
“In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.” PeopleMindMatterReasonFactsBigsMightWantedPastSexInterestCitiesGroupsBabyCrossesDeedsEngagedMotivatedAncestorGenesPrimitiveGood DeedsSmall GroupsBig CitiesContraceptionExtended FamilyPrehistoricReciprocate Author:Richard Dawkins