“I just heard about a woman in Germany who just gave birth to a baby boy named "Jihad." Or as the TSA put it, "Hope you like Amtrak!” BoysHeardBabyBirthGermanyJihadBaby BoyTsaAmtrak Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.” WorldHas BeensHomeGovernmentCareChoicesSimplePovertyHeardDevelopmentBirthSafeConflictInstitutionsComplicatedPlanningEmploymentHealth CareRebellionConsumptionIgnoredOrthodoxyBirth ControlFamily PlanningCairo Author:Anna Quindlen
“We Americans are free to give our opinions and make our voices heard. We work in a free enterprise economy that, for over 200 years, has lifted countless individuals above the circumstances of their birth to achieve their God-given potential. We have been an exceptional country because, here, people are free to practice their faiths and worship God.” PeopleGivingYearsHas BeensCountryIndividualGivenVoiceOpinionPracticeEconomyHeardAchieveBirthCircumstancesWorshipEnterpriseExceptionalWorship GodFree Enterprise Author:Marco Rubio
“I think the craziest thing I heard, and this guy's not even nominated, he's from Texas...he said there's no reason that women shouldn't carry a stillborn baby to term, and that it's an excuse to have an abortion if she doesn't want to. She should just let nature take its course from start to finish. Literally forcing birth of a fetus that died in the womb.” IfsThinkingWantShouldSaidReasonGuyCoursesTermHeardBabyBirthDiedExcuseAbortionNo ReasonTexasThis GuyWombFetusCraziest Author:Lizz Winstead
“In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they kind of push the message: "It's a free country." Everybody has the right to say whatever they want to say. But in the Middle East, culture is your guide. You have to ask, is it culturally okay to say something like that? Is it culturally okay, for example, to show a woman giving birth? As Arabs watching such a scene in an American film it's okay, but when it comes to the Arabic context, we're like, "How dare you?" So it's how you present it.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsFirstsKindCountryStatesShowsFilmCultureAsksSpeakHeardMiddleExampleBirthSceneMessagesOkayDareEastGuidesMiddle EastAmendmentsFirst AmendmentGiving BirthFree CountryAmerican Film Author:Mohammed Saeed Harib
“Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.” WorldIdeasForceSocialWatchesSawsHeardObjectsTaughtColorPoetTheoryBirthBlindIntuitionExcellentVisualsProfessorsSpheresGiftedLecturesAccuracy Author:Thomas Hardy
“At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.” KnowsFirstsLittlesWarEndsStoriesMightLeftForgetMistakeHeardBirthOne DayThousandComfortableTragedyCriminalsGravesCoincidenceForget ItCharlieLarksWar StoriesSmall Mistakes Author:Holly Black
“A song was heard at Christmas To wake the midnight sky: A saviour's birth, and peace on earth, And praise to God on high. The angels sang at Christmas With all the hosts above, And still we sing the newborn King His glory and his love.” StillsEarthSongHeardSkyBirthKingsGloryAngelPraiseChristmasHostMidnightHis LovePeace On EarthSaviourNight SkyNewbornBest ChristmasChristmas SongPraises To God Author:Timothy Dudley-Smith