In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves. – Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn, Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
If you want to know the feeling, just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head. – Carol Burnett, about labor pain, quoted in Fatherhood by Bill Cosby
The childbirth class neglected to teach you a critical skill. How to swear, breathe and count all at the same time. – Linda Fiterman, From Colic to College: Chuckling Your Way Through Parenthood
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I dont see how I can ever trust any human being again. – Ulysses S. Grant
I think Im also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records. – Michelle Branch
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly
