Umbilical Cord Quotes

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

Kirk Hammett

Guitar, Metallica, Cords

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Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.

Charles Bukowski

Mother, Monday, Morning

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In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

Germaine Greer

Struggle, Motherhood, Would Be

"The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

Love, Inspirational, Life

"Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

Lee Ezell

Cutting, Past, Yesterday

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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

Irwin Shaw

Character, Cutting, Voice

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In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.

Paulo Freire

Cutting, Order, Magic

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.

Nathan Deal

Cells, Blood, Adults

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Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually.

Rick Wakeman

Two, Band, Bizarre

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The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

John Gregory Dunne

Fetus, Literature, Narrative

John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.198, Zola Books

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My mother was very involved with me. And we had a dialogue constantly. And it was like an umbilical cord. As long as the words were flowing back and forth we were connected and feeding each other. And I probably grew up very afraid of losing that connection.

Howard Stern

Family, Mother, Long

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The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.

Moshe Safdie

Cutting, Thinking, Satisfaction

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Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.

Terry Tempest Williams

Responsibility, Past, Ties

Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.130, UNM Press

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Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

Ingmar Bergman

Art, Creativity, Creative

Ingmar Bergman (1956). “The seventh seal: a film”

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The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to another reality. On the contrary, the object of dialogical action is to make it possible for the oppressed, by perceiving their adhesion, to opt to transform an unjust reality." "In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.

Paulo Freire

Cutting, Reality, Order

"Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 4, Unity for Liberation, 1968.

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I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad.

Charlie Sheen

Baby, Yeah, Born

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So where did these cravings come from? I concluded it's the baby ordering in. Prenatal takeout. Even without ever being in a restaurant, fetuses develop remarkably discerning palates, and they are not shy about demanding what they want. If they get a hankering, they just pick up the umbilical cord and call. 'You know what would taste good right now? A cheeseburger, large fries, and a vanilla shake. And if you could, hurry it up, because I'm supposed to grow a lung in a half hour.'

Paul Reiser

Baby, Half, Want

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From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.

Paige Bradley

Strong, Wall, Attachment

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What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born because they are still tied by an umbilical cord. Relationships between women - daughters, mothers, friends - are one of my strong interests.

Judith Perelman Rossner

Daughter, Mother, Strong

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In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

Thor Heyerdahl

Fighting, Cutting, Winning

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When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing. The cord had cut off my oxygen - not the entire time, just at the end, when my mom was giving birth. When I came out, I wasn't conscious, so they had to work on bringing me back. It was a crazy moment.

LaMarcus Aldridge

Mom, Crazy, Cutting

Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an umbilical cord, a connection to the outside world, the giver of pleasure and pain. It shapes the day, is the moment, inexorable as the tide, toward which all the hours rise and fall.

Mameve Medwed

Sports, Pain, Fall

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I wonder, What is it to be human? Especially now that we are so urban. How do we remember our connection with place? What is the umbilical cord that roots us to that primal, instinctive, erotic place? Every time I walk to the edge of this continent and feel the sand beneath my feet, feel the seafoam move up my body, I think, "Ah, yes, evolution." It's there, we just forget.

Terry Tempest Williams

Moving, Thinking, Roots

Source: www.scottlondon.com

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There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

Moss Hart

Family, Piano, Wire

moss hart (1959). “act one”

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Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

James Lee Burke

Trying, Like You, Desks

James Lee Burke (2009). “Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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