It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
Jodi Picoult
TimeDoneThreeNeverBirthWrite
It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.
Julie Bowen
BirthDriverGiveGetLicenseThan
The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.
Joel Osteen
DreamBirthRightAlwaysDifficulty
To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No one knows.
James Gleick
PathDownWillPossibleBirthNeed
A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
Andrei Platonov
WomanManWarNeverBirthHead
An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!
Gloria Trevi
ChildReadyBirthGiveLikeAlbum
I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.
John Lanchester
BelieveReadingImportantBirthVery
Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.
Eskinder Nega
SonWifePrisonBirthShePrime
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.
Jeffrey Kluger
MomentLanguageBirthBeginEven
My daddy didn't even sign my birth certificate. So I ain't never had his last name.
Future
NameNeverBirthDaddyLastSign
While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.
Amy Waldman
New YorkPeopleThoughtNewBirth
Birth is such an emotional thing.
Eva Amurri
BirthEmotionalThingEmotional Thing
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
Stella Young
MeDisabilityBirthFortuneLived
My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife.
Ellen Ullman
MotherWifeManMeWantBirth
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud
ExperienceAnxietyBirthFirstAct
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
David Attenborough
HopeMeSituationBirthReasonGive
The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
Tom DeLay
ParentsYouthControlViolenceBirth
I've been a Brewers fan since birth.
Chad Harbach
BirthBeenFanSince
At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.
Ronda Rousey
StarsHomeDeathFaceSomeoneBirth
Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.
Alexander De Croo
LearningGrowthDeathLearnBirth
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin
GrowthSpiritualBirthSufferPains
God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.
Thales
GodBirthThingsAncientMostHe
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.
Michael Specter
MotherTimeChildCloudMoreBirth
The Kecks will allow us, like no other telescope in history, to view the evolving universe that gave us birth.
Sandra Faber
HistoryUniverseViewWillBirthUs
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