“Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.” HouseBirthFindingsPainfulSeekingRebirthBuilder Author:Gautama Buddha
“[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.” PeopleHomeThreeHouseFourDoorsBirthChildbirthHome Birth Author:Joyce Maynard
“Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.” GivingHeartBookSchoolFunnyGirlHouseLeftSexCommonBoysFailingSonBirthAmbitionHumorousPartnersCommon SenseFancyGloriousBreastsAmbitiousAlliancesStirringBoy And GirlGiving Birth Author:Charles Dickens
“Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla” FatherHouseNamesStrongBirthConnectionsRoyalAbiding Book:Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1: 1918-1962 Source: Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1: 1918-1962
“Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.” ChildrenBookDiesHouseGivenBirthTablesCookingSevenNewspapersNineThirtyKitchenTomsUnclesCabinsAbolitionistKitchen TableMendingUncle Tom Author:Sophy Burnham
“When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!” EarthFallHouseSexBlackMysteryBirthOffersDevilRainSacredFleshScriptureSnowKingdomsMysticismRemembranceUnjustPillsCountingMaterialisticCorridorsSacred Texts Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.” WorldWarHardYoungFoundHouseParentBornChildhoodBirthCoupleMarriedBuiltMy FamilyMovedBlockParisWar Of The WorldsFlatsApartmentSuburbsSecond World WarMarried Couples Author:Richard Clayderman
“When did I turn into a needywhiny angsty idiot who needed to be swept off her feet? She snorted then started running again, forcing me into a brief sprint to catch up. We're conditioned from birth she said. I swear to god,if I ever have a daughter I'll ban all of the Disney princesses from the house. Except Mulan. She kicks ass.” IfsSaidRunningTurnsHouseFeetBirthNeededDaughterAssIdiotKicksPrincessSwearBansKick AssSprintSwear To God Author:Diana Rowland
“There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.” ChildrenLittlesHouseCenturyExampleBirthSpokesDomainNineteenth CenturyBirth Of A Child Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.” IfsEnoughHouseLeftWhiteBehindsListeningBirthWake UpSensesWhite HouseProgressiveParenthoodRhetoricLeft BehindBenevolenceBirth ControlPlanned ParenthoodAnesthetics Author:Michelle Malkin
“...Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night.” NightHouseVoiceDestinySweetBirthChosenTheeYour DestinySweet VoiceHouse Of Night Book:House of Night Series Source: House of Night Series