Delivery Room Quotes:

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

- Norman Cousins

topic: Book, Reading, Ideas, Modifying, Library Books

There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.

- Paul Reiser

source: "‘Pretty Little Liars’ EP Explains How Spencer and Caleb Ended up Together, Teases What’s Down Sara’s Ladder". Interview with Reid Nakamura, www.thewrap.com. February 16, 2016.

topic: Dope, Men, Guy, Delivery Room

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: "The biggest mother of them all" by John Lyttle, www.independent.co.uk. October 16, 1996.

topic: Giving, Drug, Wonder Woman, Delivery Room, Giving Birth

My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.209, Ballantine Books

topic: Children, Father, Years, Days Of The Year, Delivery Room

On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so hard to go ahead with it if I had realized that having a baby was the only way I could ever become a grandmother.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Baby, Grandmother, Grandparent, Delivery Room

Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into the delivery room when the light was on. From the dormitory, they could hear Dr. Larch's reading voice. Although Candy held tightly to his hand, Homer was inclined to hurry - in order not to miss the bedtime story.

- John Irving

topic: Reading, Light, Hands, Delivery Room, Dormitory

Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else"

- Billy Connolly

topic: Funny, Baby, Black, Paddy, Delivery Room

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

- Norman Cousins

topic: Book, Ideas, Library, Libraries And Librarians, Library Books

Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Warm, Delivery Room, Your Stupid, Bathing, Bowel Movements

The worst part of directing is always seeing the first assembly. It's devastating. It really is. It's like going into the delivery room and you can't wait to see your baby, and it's a crocodile.

- David Ayer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Delivery Room