Quotes of Fecundity - somelinesforyou

“ Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. ”

- John Keats

“ If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. ”

- Nora Ephron

“ It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity, The adorner and refresher of the world. ”

- Charles Mackay

“ Tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored. ”

- Unknown

“ As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ I was a pregnant vixen. ”

- Heather Locklear

“ In principle, rapid productivity should make wages rise, but it seems that until the job market tightens up a bit, all the productivity gains flow to corporate profits. ”

- John Hancock

“ Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars. ”

- Samuel G. Goodrich

“ This is a key element of the technology industry getting re-energized and putting productivity back into other sectors of the economy that can get the economy back to where it was a couple of years ago. ”

- Bill Gates

“ Increased QUALITY/PRODUCTIVITY is made up of 1000s of small improvements. Just like Gulliver who was held down by 1000s of threads. Each one doesn't seem to mean much, and in the case of a thread, can be easily broken. But 1000s of them can have a very strong effect. ”

- Unknown

“ The dream as conceived 25 years ago has not been achieved. Until software becomes the ultimate tool for collaboration, productivity, and efficiency, the work is not done. And there's nothing more fun than doing that work. ”

- Larry Page

“ Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ”

- Margaret Junkin Preston

“ Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. ”

- Queen Victoria

“ Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountifield crop. ”

- Ovid

“ Making a decision to have a child — it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ”

- Elizabeth Stone

“ It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be. ”

- Carrie Fisher

“ These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. ”

- Queen Elizabeth

“ These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. ”

- Elizabeth I

“ The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant. ”

- Jim Cole

“ Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ”

- Andrew Grove

“ It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child. ”

- Loretta Lynn

“ In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. ”

- Raoul Vaneigem

“ Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. ”

- Andrea Dworkin

“ Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. ”

- Dorothy Parker
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