Placenta Quotes

• The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

  John Berger

  Past, Dying, Grows

  John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.78, Vintage

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• It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

  Ricki Lake

  Tree, Looks, Branches

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• Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land.

  Timothy Findley

  Mother, Horse, Lying

  Timothy Findley (1983). “The wars”, Laurel

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• When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that.

  Christopher Titus

  Blood, Perfect, Nostalgic

  "Titus / Sex with Pudding". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message. The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.

  John Berger

  Song, Order, Essence

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• I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there’s a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic. I would be wearing it whether or not I was in the public eye.

  Kesha

  Eye, Sight, Psychics

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

  January Jones

  Mom, Mammals, Hesitant

  "January Jones: Placenta Capsules Are ‘Not Witch-Crafty!’", celebritybabies.people.com. March 23, 2012.

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• The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Soul, Horizon

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• [On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Baby, Food, Cells

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• All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the placenta carry nourishment to children in the womb of their mothers; but it could not be so with our first parents. It cannot be believed that God gave them navels which would have been altogether useless.

  Richard Cumberland

  God, Mother, Children

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• Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Children, Cutting, Blood

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• I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Giants

  "Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. June 10, 2010.

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• A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.

  Brooke Burke

  Believe, Culture, Plant

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• I’ve even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Elbows, Modern

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.277, Macmillan

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