Breasts Quotes - Page 30

• Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Children, Memories

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• Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Son, Men

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.123, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone.

  Claire Messud

  Mother, Dream, Grief

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• Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one

  Erykah Badu

  Baby, Years, Two

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• Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Sweet, Eye

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Miscellaneous poems: Collection of 1846. Last fruit off an old tree. Dry sticks. Additional poems. Criticisms: Idyls of Theocritus. Poems of Catullus. Francesco Petrarca”, p.222

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• We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.

  Thomas Hood

  Life, Night, Breathing

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.258

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• We need the breast and the brightest to- umm the best and the brightest.

  Edward Kennedy

  Needs

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• 'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Brotherhood, Sin

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1876). “The snow-image and other twice-told tales”, p.102

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• Nature has a way of taking care of things. If you have a certain figure you'll go back to it. Breast feed and don't worry about it.

  Eva Herzigova

  Worry, Care, Way

  "Eva Herzigova Is Confident She'll Shed Baby Weight" by Silvia Sansoni, people.com. October 30, 2007.

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• How fair doth Nature
  Appear again!
  How bright the sunbeams!
  How smiles the plain!
  The flow'rs are bursting
  From ev'ry bough,
  And thousand voices
  Each bush yields now.
  And joy and gladness
  Fill ev'ry breast!
  Oh earth!-oh sunlight!
  Oh rapture blest!
  Oh love! oh loved one!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Yield, Voice, Joy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1853). “The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring”, p.79

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• The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.

  Eric Gill

  Girl, Moon, Apples

  Eric Gill (1944). “Autobiography”

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• There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

  Hosea Ballou

  Court, Findings, Session

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• I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.

  Carly Simon

  Cancer, Scar, Kind

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• O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire,
  What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn
  Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn
  Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire
  The streams than under ice. June could not hire
  Her roses to forego the strength they learn
  In sleeping on thy breast.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Heart, Sleep, Loss

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

  Dion Fortune

  Religious, Spring, Special

  "Experience of the Inner Worlds". Book by Gareth Knight, 1975.

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• For people who dont know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. Ive been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

  John Barrasso

  Cancer, Years, Medicine

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• Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just shrunk up - unevenly I might add - and eventually turned into wine-cork nubs. Then it would be a different story. Then men would get the pity that they deserve. As far as I'm concerned, baldness is the male breast cancer only worse, because almost everyone gets it. True, it's not life threatening. Just social-life threatening. But in New York City, there is no difference.

  Augusten Burroughs

  New York, Cancer, Wine

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• Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Thinking, Dust, Perfect

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• The mother has to have enough food in order to produce enough milk in order to breast feed, but she has to know that she should breast feed. That's an education issue.

  Catherine Bertini

  Mother, Order, Issues

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• The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.

  Liliʻuokalani

  Country, Men, Independence

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• When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Children, Echoes, Curves

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.737, Dell

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• Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mother, Kings, Angel

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1859). “Sermons Preached and Revised by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, Fifth Series. New York, Sheldon”, p.20

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• I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Cancer, Needs

  "My Medical Choice". www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2013.

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• In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Grief, Moving

  1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, l.128-30.

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• A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.

  David Hume

  Wise, Men, Stronger

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765”, p.305, Oxford University Press, USA

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