“Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.” LandBirthInfantShipwreck Book:The Stone Gods Source: The Stone Gods
“In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype in which a divine hero's birth is supernaturally predicted and conceived, the infant hero escapes attempts to kill him, demonstrates his precocious wisdom already as a child, receives a divine commission, defeats demons, wins acclaim, is hailed as king, then betrayed, losing popular favor, executed, often on a hilltop, and is vindicated and taken up to heaven.” ChildrenJesusWinningHeavenTakenAtheismDivineBirthKingsHeroLosingDefeatDetailsPositive AtheismFavorsDemonBroadsBetrayedInfantOutlinesArchetypeAcclaimPrecociousVindicated Author:Robert M. Price
“The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.” MenGivingHumansEndsFormDiesStrongBornConsciousnessEconomicDyingEmotionalBirthPeriodsDemandOptimismCrisisConstantErrorsProsperityExcitedErasExcitementGiantsPessimismInfantVaryLiableHuman ConsciousnessNew EraGravitationElasticityStrong Emotional Author:Arthur Cecil Pigou
“The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.” FirstsHumansChildrenSometimesHumorReligiousWeekBirthSixDevilStealingSubstitutesInfant Author:Martin Luther
“Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.” IfsKnowsMeanStillsProblemBodyOrderTurnsIndividualChallengesNumbersIssuesBirthSafeFemaleSafetyAddValuableAbortionFactoriesInfantReproductionBirth ControlFemale BodyBattleground Author:Gloria Steinem
“It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.” ChildrenLittlesScienceDeathDiesBornNaturalDyingBirthPainfulInfantPainful Death Author:Francis Bacon
“Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.” MenPainHurtEffortBirthTiredInfantSweating Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.” MayStillsTwoEyeEarthMovingMorningAirTreeBirthBandSpringRingsBreezeInfantFullnessMirthGleamHushFoliageThickets Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe