Quotes & Sayings About Big Brothers Birthday

Where is your water? Know your garden. — Hopi Teaching

I am not at home to any one, Victor," he said — Oscar Wilde

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side. — Abraham Lincoln

I know what I want from life and I'm grateful for the blessings I have. — D.D. Prince

The techno-medical model of maternity care, unlike the midwifery model, is comparatively new on the world scene, having existed for barely two centuries. This male-derived framework for care is a product of the industrial revolution. As anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd has described in detail, underlying the technocratic mode of care of our own time is an assumption that the human body is a machine and that the female body in particular is a machine full of shortcomings and defects. Pregnancy and labor are seen as illnesses, which, in order not to be harmful to mother or baby, must be treated with drugs and medical equipment. Within the techno-medical model of birth, some medical intervention is considered necessary for every birth, and birth is safe only in retrospect. — Ina May Gaskin

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality. — Michael Arlen

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth. — Daniel Prokop

In an old culture like Europe, everything has already been done. For people who always complain about everything purportedly being so bad, I want to ask why they don't pack up their things and emigrate. — Carie Maas

People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain. — Sam Kean

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted. — Mary Ruefle

I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production. — Jess Glynne

Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde. — Nicholas Udall

The floor went completely black when Mr. Amos pulled the door shut. I couldn't see it now, but I'd rememorized the exact shape the stain was in. The padlock snapped shut with the loudest click I'd ever heard. — Christopher Paul Curtis