#birth

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#brains #everyone #gives #image #images

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#banquet #birth #bread #control #diminish

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday. ↗

— Lawrence Tierney

#birthday #buy #couple #give #go

I have been reading Plotinus all evening. He has the power to sooth me; and I find his sadness curiously comforting. Even when he writes: “Life here with the things of earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failure of the wing.” The wing has indeed failed. One sinks. Defeat is certain. Even as I write these lines, the lamp wick sputters to an end, and the pool of light in which I sit contracts. Soon the room will be dark. One has always feared that death would be like this. But what else is there? With Julian, the light went, and now nothing remains but to let the darkness come, and hope for a new sun and another day, born of time’s mystery and a man’s love of life. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#death

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#childbirth #pain #remembered

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#cream #every #i #kid #made

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#affect #anxiety #birth #experience #first

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#birthday #birthday party #children #excuses #got

And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#death #rebirth #death

Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#certainly #country #delaware #encouraged #encouraging