“Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprème de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croûtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.” IfsThinkingKnowsLittlesSometimesBeautifulCryBirthEatingHappeningsBoatSoleTwistsPotatoesGadgetsDigestionJollyBeastly Book:The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Source: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
“Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.” ThinkingWorldWayWantGivingCountryChangeIndustryBirthHappeningsInnovationJapanValleysSiliconGiving BirthSilicon Valley Author:Shinzo Abe
“The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.” BelieveKindStatesTodayMediaBirthHappeningsEducationalVirginsMiraculousOrthodoxySubtletyEducational SystemInquisitionDogmatismImbecilesVirgin BirthThoroughness Book:Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society Source: Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society
“Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.” ImportantTodayIndividualWealthPositionBirthHappeningsImportance Author:Emilio Pucci
“I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can talk about contraception all they want, but the women of America are using birth control. It's as simple as that.” WantAmericaPoliticalSimpleHugeBirthHappeningsWingsRight WingPolitical PowerBirth ControlContraception Author:Anna Quindlen
“In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.” WorldHas BeensStillsBigsGrowthCasesAmountBirthHappeningsWestRatePopulationDroppingPopulation GrowthBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When they were giving birth, they were asked to sign paperwork but they weren't even completely conscious of what they were signing. That sounds like something that would never happen in America, but it was happening, not just in America, but in [California], one of the most progressive states in the United States.” GivingStatesHappensAmericaSoundUnitedUnited StatesIssuesExampleBirthHappeningsConsciousImpactPrisonReformCaliforniaProgressiveLike SomethingSigningGiving BirthPaperworkPrison Reform Author:Patricia Arquette
“The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times, there were families of 15 children. Someone like Edward Lear, he was the last of 21 children. And so what we have to think about is offering people the alternative choice. And in the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. I'm wanting human beings to be better off so they don't view children as an insurance for the future.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHumansChildrenHas BeensStillsProblemLastsChoicesHuman BeingsViewsBirthHappeningsWestRateSolveAlternativesFewerAcceptableOfferingBetter OffDroppingEcologicalVictorianLearBirth RateVictorian Times Author:David Attenborough
“When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.” ChildrenCareLostWonderBirthLuckyHappeningsHealth CarePostsVillageFourthPersonnel Author:Joyce Banda
“i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)” ShouldHumansDreamEyeTodayEarthSpiritNaturalSunDoubtAliveSeeingTreeSkyBirthGayHappeningsEarsDiedInfiniteBlueWingsHearingBreathingAwakeTouchingUnimaginableTastingThank You GodTrue DreamsAmazing Day Book:AnOther E.E. Cummings Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings