“When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.” BornEnvironmentBirthSkinsNosesThroatWombLiving OnCanalsBacteria Author:Paul A. Offit
“We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.” WorldHardFallModernColdBirthExistentialismEmpiresTornWombThrustRoman EmpireModern ScienceCanals Author:Terence McKenna
“I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.” BornCitiesNew YorkBirthTrainNew York CityWombWirePipeTunnelsBorn AgainCanals Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.” HumansStillsHardFactsRememberThreeTermAwarenessBirthConsciousRootsCelebrateFuneralFewerArrivalsCanalsBirth And DeathConscious AwarenessSafariBiggieRoot CanalsBiggy Author:Andrew Schneider
“I remember exiting the birth canal and suddenly I was in a film. But you are never really in charge of that. The movie came out about five or six months ago in America. It was Miramax in the States and Disney here [fakes falling asleep]. What happened. I love working for Disney, not Walt specifically because he couldn't be more dead, but the company is fantastic.” StatesAmericaRememberFilmFallCompanyFiveHappenedMonthsBirthSixFantasticFakeSix MonthsWaltCanalsFalling Asleep Author:Ryan Reynolds
“I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great. ‘When I bleat here, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and “bleat, bleat”?’ I asked. ‘I feel like “bleat, bleating,” but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don’t want to steal focus, you know what I mean?” IfsKnowsWantFeelsMeanMotherFocusPiecesBirthLetting GoPerformancesPaidRewardsScriptsStealingFollyWant MeInvitedWireNestsBuilderYou Want MeDestroyersCrawlingCanalsDo You Want Me Author:David Sedaris
“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.” StatesValuesEasyParentBornUnitedNumbersCitiesBehindsUnited StatesPiecesLandNew YorkBirthRemainsSacredTrainZeroNew York CityRebirthWombWireSomewhere ElsePipeTunnelsBorn AgainCanalsStarting Anew Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on their butts.” IfsKidsBirthPlasticCanals Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay boots and those stunning good looks. But, even so, he blasted enough heterosexual mega-wattage to light up the entire female population. Which he’d undoubtedly been doing since he shot out of the birth canal, glimpsed his reflection in the obstetrician’s eyeglasses, and gave the world a high five.” WorldBelieveLooksEnoughLightBoysFiveBirthGayReflectionShotsFemalePopulationHonestlyBootsGlancesLooking GoodStunningLight UpCanalsMegaEyeglassesPretty BoyObstetricians Book:Natural Born Charmer Source: Natural Born Charmer