“When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.” GivingWritingChildrenWholeMotivationalTogetherMotherLeftCuttingPoetBirthBiggerMeaningfulAriseIslandsDancerMeaninglessIsolatedNot AloneLeft Alone Author:Rajneesh
“A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.” MomentsSchoolScienceLeftCuttingBuddhismBirthWaveBoardsThat MomentSurfer Author:Frederick Lenz
“Republicans are definitely pro-birth (they’ll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in), but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?” ChildrenSupportCuttingBabyBirthRepublicanVoteFundingPro Life Author:Jennifer Granholm
“When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing. The cord had cut off my oxygen - not the entire time, just at the end, when my mom was giving birth. When I came out, I wasn't conscious, so they had to work on bringing me back. It was a crazy moment.” GivingEndsMomentsBornCuttingCrazyMomBirthConsciousMy MomBreathingNecksOxygenCordsGiving BirthUmbilical Cord Author:LaMarcus Aldridge
“The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza).” YearsBookEndsJobsDealsCuttingMaterialsBirthYeahObligedJuniorsBlogsPizzaJunior High Author:Jason Mulgrew
“My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.” YearsKidsCuttingDogBabyBirthParentingMotherhoodDumbMemorableCordsLeashesBaby BoyObstetricians Author:Joan Rivers
“[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.” PeopleWayTryingYearsHumansSoulSelfHandsSpeakLanguageHuman BeingsCuttingBirthGeniusUnderstoodWingsTinyTemperNew WaysStampsParticlesPolishInner SelfFieryYear One Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.” FacesWhiteCuttingHairWallBirthKissingStormAwakeClimbsYearningThickCastlesThornsDo It YourselfCastle Walls Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.” PeopleYoungNationsProcessBornDemocracyCuttingSocietyYouthBirthCitizensLifetimeEvolveCitizenshipGood CitizenWorld CitizenLifelinesGood CitizenshipActive Citizenship Author:Kofi Annan
“I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever” WorldCuttingGroupsBirthDaughterVoteIndependentFeministAccessBirth ControlGranddaughterIdeologues Author:Elizabeth Warren